# Gemini 3 Pro vs Ministral 3B

> Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-3-pro-vs-ministral-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## 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 64.3 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.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 54.7 | 25.6 |
| Rank | 23 | 336 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.04 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.9% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 74.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1439 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 68.7% | — |
| GSO | 18.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 69.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1482 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,177 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.83 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 69.4% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 72.5% | — |
| GDPval | 40.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 80.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 18% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 75.9% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 91% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.3% | — |
| BALROG | 58.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1207 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 71% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,478 | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28)
- Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.96 | 118.08 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | — |
| SimpleBench | 76.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.1% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 94.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 75% | — |
| CritPt | 6.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 31% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 18.2% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| ForecastBench | 61.2 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50)
- Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.4% | — |
| ProofBench | 20% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 55.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1475 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 37.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 18.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15)
- Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6% | 25.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 13.6% | 7.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 90.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 80.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1475 | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | — |
| GeoBench | 84% | — |
| VPCT | 91% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1434 | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1474 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1522 | — |
| LMArena French | 1492 | — |
| LMArena German | 1517 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1513 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1449 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1493 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1468 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1458 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | 15.8% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1472 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1482 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1525 | — |
| WildBench | 85.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1484 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 25.6 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.