Model comparison

Ministral 3B vs Trinity Large Thinking

Trinity Large Thinking is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Trinity Large Thinking's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI

38.6

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Ministral 3B scores higher in 1 category and Trinity Large Thinking in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Trinity Large Thinking leads 40.9 to 10.4.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.80 for Trinity Large Thinking.
  • Trinity Large Thinking accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Ministral 3B and Trinity Large Thinking specifications
Ministral 3BTrinity Large Thinking
ProviderMistral AIArcee AI
Noometry Index26.238.6
Released2024-10-012026-04-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K262K
Max output262K80K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.10$0.80
Results tracked624

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Trinity Large Thinking: 34.1 (#244)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena WebDev—1238
SciCode—36.1%
LMArena Coding—1381

Reasoning Ministral 3B leads

Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.9 (#298)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BTrinity Large Thinking
NYT Connections (extended)—16.5%
CritPt—0.9%
Thematic Generalization—41.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1350
DTBench51.7%—
LMCA5.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.1—

Math Trinity Large Thinking leads

Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258), Trinity Large Thinking: 37.6 (#149)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Math—1366
MATH Level 514.4%—

Knowledge Trinity Large Thinking leads

Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.9 (#113)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BTrinity Large Thinking
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.3%6.9%
GPQA Diamond25.3%—
LMArena Expert—1360

Multilingual Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Trinity Large Thinking: 46.2 (#160)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Non-English—1325
LMArena Chinese—1373
LMArena French—1374
LMArena German—1356
LMArena Japanese—1311
LMArena Korean—1306
LMArena Russian—1337
LMArena Spanish—1357

Instruction Following Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Trinity Large Thinking: 70.5 (#162)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Instruction Following—1334

Long Context Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Trinity Large Thinking: 41.3 (#144)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Longer Query—1355

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Trinity Large Thinking: 53.8 (#158)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Text—1340
LMArena Creative Writing—1320
LMArena Multi-Turn—1342

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 3B better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Trinity Large Thinking is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Trinity Large Thinking's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Ministral 3B or Trinity Large Thinking?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Trinity Large Thinking lists at $0.25 and $0.80.

Which has the bigger context window?

Trinity Large Thinking does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Trinity Large Thinking share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.

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