whatmodel.sh / Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512

Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 is an open-weights language model from Mistral, released December 2025. Its published size is 13.9B parameters and a 262k-token context window. Licence: apache-2.0.

Model information sources

· Parameter count ↗

Sum of the two components the card states (13.5B LM + 0.4B vision encoder = 13.9B). The repo's safetensors header gives 13,945,031,680 parameters (HF API); the sibling non-reasoning catalogue entry uses 13.9. Dense model: active_b = params_b.

57.5±1.0#228 of 719 LLMsfrom 20 benchmark results across 6 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512, out of 828 with a score, then more from Mistral.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
270Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 NVIDIA58±1local~18GB2025-07
271Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B NVIDIA58±1api $0.087/M +local~20GB2025-12
272Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 Mistral58±1local~10GB2025-12
273GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAI57±1api $4.38/M2024-08
274Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (01-21) Google57±2comparison only2025-01
more from Mistral
79Mistral Large 4 (public preview) Mistral71±2api $2.06/M2026-10
174Mistral Medium 3.5 (128B) Mistral65±1api $3.00/M +local~42GB2026-04
180Mistral Medium 3.1 (2508) Mistral64±2comparison only2025-08

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #237 of 300 * · 3.0% of its score · 2 tests

Beats o3-mini here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Granite 4.0 1B, SmolLM3 3B, Phi-3.5-mini-instruct here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BFCL V4 (December 2025 archive)35.9% ✎▁▁▁▂▇▆▆▆█▂▄▂ beats 43/111hard · avg 33%▇ 2.1%at its level
BFCL v352.2% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▆▅▄▁ beats 50/170medium · avg 58%▇ 0.9%blunt · at its level
coding▁▁▁▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #224 of 458 · 11% of its score · 2 tests

Beats Qwen3.5 4B, Qwen3-VL 32B Instruct, Solar Open 100B (102B-A12B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails QwQ-32B-Preview, Ministral 3 3B Reasoning 2512, GPT-4 (0613) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LiveCodeBench (version unspecified) lab +264.6% ✎▁···▁▁▃▅▅█▄▅ beats 29/37medium · avg 47%▇▇▇ 7.8%at its level · small run · several runs
LiveCodeBench v6 (window unspecified)42.7% ✎▂▃▄▄▅██▅▄▇▃▆ beats 12/65medium · avg 43%▇ 2.9%at its level
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #302 of 393 * · 0.7% of its score · 1 test

Trails LFM2 350M, Gemma 3 1B, Flan-T5 XXL here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
IFEval (aggregation unspecified)59.7% ✎▁▁▃▃▂▄▄▆█▃▂▁ beats 21/141easy · avg 76%▇ 0.7%noisy
math█·····█····█ #1 of 3 · 28% of its score · 2 tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
AIME 2025 lab +285.0% ✎▁·▁▁▁▂▅▆█▇▅▁ beats 99/133medium · avg 64%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 14%sharp · small run · several runs
AIME 2024 lab +289.8% ✎▁▁▁▂▁▃▁▅███▃ beats 72/85easy · avg 73%▇▇▇▇▇ 14%sharp · small run · several runs
other tests8 not in a task · 57% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GPQA Diamond +346.0% ✎▁▁▁▁▂▄▅▅███▄ beats 158/310hard · avg 51%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 23%sharp · at its level · small run · several runs
Medmarks-V mean win rate (19 verifiable medical benchmarks, 71 configurations)0.4807 ✎▁▄▃▃▇▄█▃▅▁▁▁ beats 14/30avg 0.423▇▇▇▇▇ 13%sharp
Medmarks-V weighted mean win rate (61 models, 71 configurations)48.1% ✎▂▃▅▂▆▃█▅█▅▃▆ beats 13/34medium · avg 42%▇▇▇ 6.3%blunt · at its level
EuroEval Life in the UK (English knowledge MC), validation split, 5-shot, accuracy93.2% ✎▂·▂▂·▂·▃▃·█▃ beats 10/14easy · avg 80%▇▇ 5.0%typical
EuroEval HellaSwag (English), validation split, 5-shot generative MC, accuracy86.9% ✎▂··▂▂·▂▆▆█·▄ beats 14/15medium · avg 63%▇ 3.4%at its level
MMLU-Redux84.4% ✎▁▁▃▁▂▃▄▅▇▅█▄ beats 17/63easy · avg 77%▇ 3.2%typical
SurgiQ surgical MCQ (zero-shot, log-probability scoring)63.5% ✎▂···▂▂·▃▂▃██ beats 13/17medium · avg 53%▇ 2.0%at its level
GSM-Plus86.5% ✎▁··▁▁▁·▃▁▄█▁ beats 8/16easy · avg 83%▇ 1.4%blunt

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 · needs 8.24 GB · from huggingface.co/mistralai
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 · needs 8.24 GB · from huggingface.co/mistralai

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 · needs 8.24 GB · from huggingface.co/mistralai
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run hf.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF:Q4_K_M

MLX (Mac)

  1. Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.
    with uv
    uv tool install mlx-lm
    or
    pip install mlx-lm
  2. Run Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 · needs ~8.4 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/hunterbown
    chat in the terminal
    mlx_lm.chat --model hunterbown/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-MLX-4bit
  3. Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1
    mlx_lm.server --model hunterbown/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-MLX-4bit

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/mistralai ↗

$ how the score was worked out · mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reas… 27%, mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Reas… 27%, Medmarks: A Comprehensive Ope… 19% and 3 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

not counted (4)

mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512 model cardAIME 2025 [correct]85.0%the only model in this source's run of the test, so there is nothing to compare it with there; another run of the test counts
mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512 model cardAIME 2024 [correct]89.8%the only model in this source's run of the test, so there is nothing to compare it with there; another run of the test counts
mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512 model cardGPQA Diamond [correct]71.2%the only model in this source's run of the test, so there is nothing to compare it with there; another run of the test counts
mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512 model cardLiveCodeBench (version unspecified) [correct]64.6%the only model in this source's run of the test, so there is nothing to compare it with there; another run of the test counts

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