Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.6% for Gemini 3 Pro and 25.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Ministral 3B specifications
Gemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index54.826.2
Released2025-11-182024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.10
Results tracked676

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
LMArena Coding1481—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Ministral 3B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92118.1
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
DTBench—51.7%
LMCA—5.5%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LMArena Math1476—
MATH Level 5—14.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond92.6%25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%7.3%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Ministral 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1474—
LMArena Chinese1523—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Ministral 3B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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