# Mercury vs Ministral 3B

> Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-vs-ministral-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 25.6 |
| Rank | 192 | 336 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.04 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury: 38.1 (#164)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1323 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mercury: 16.8 (#288)
- Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.08 |

## Math

- Mercury: —
- Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |

## Knowledge

- Mercury: —
- Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 25.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.3% |

## Multilingual

- Mercury: 41.7 (#201)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1259 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury: 65.3 (#220)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1238 | — |

## Long Context

- Mercury: 38.3 (#193)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1264 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury: 46.2 (#216)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1283 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury better than Ministral 3B?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury and Ministral 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.