Ministral 3B
Ministral 3B (Mistral AI) was released on Oct 16, 2024. In the Epoch AI capability ranking (ECI), it ranks #202 out of 267 models, with 118.12.
Where Ministral 3B stands out and where it falls behind, by the numbers
Ministral 3B has published results on 4 tests compiled by Epoch AI. The yardstick here is its generation: its position among the models released between Jan 20, 2024 and Jan 14, 2025 that took the same test. Against the whole archive, which includes 2023 models, a recent release lands near the top of almost everything, and that says nothing.
Where it stands out
Tests where it sits in the top third of its own generation.
It is not in the top third of its generation on any test with 6 or more models compared.
Where it falls behind
Tests where it sits in the bottom half of its own generation.
See all 4 tests, one by one
| Test | Score | In its generation | Overall | Test record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 25.3% | #33 / 35 | #168 / 173 | 96.4% Gemini 4 Argon |
| Dtbench | 51.7% | #21 / 28 | #132 / 148 | 98.9% Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Lmca | 5.48 | #12 / 14 | #116 / 121 | 68.23 Claude Opus 5.5 |
| MATH level 5 | 14.4% | #30 / 33 | #64 / 73 | 98.1% GPT-5 |
For each test, the model's best effort level counts, as in the ranking. Source of the scores: Epoch AI, under CC BY 4.0.
What to compare Ministral 3B with
The models from other labs closest in capability and released in the same period, at most two per lab. Click any of them to see its page.
| Model | Lab | ECI | ELO | LiveBench | Release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | Alibaba | 119.52 | n/a | n/a | Sep 18, 2024 |
| Command R+ | Cohere | 119.37 | 1,174 | n/a | Aug 30, 2024 |
| Qwen2.5-7B | Alibaba | 118.53 | n/a | n/a | Sep 19, 2024 |
| Claude 3 Haiku | Anthropic | 118.39 | 1,206 | n/a | Mar 7, 2024 |
| Ministral 3B | Mistral AI | 118.12 | n/a | n/a | Oct 16, 2024 |
| phi-3-mini 3.8B | Microsoft | 117.40 | n/a | n/a | Apr 23, 2024 |
| Llama 3.1-8B | Meta AI | 116.61 | n/a | n/a | Jul 23, 2024 |
Other models from Mistral AI
The models from the same lab closest in time, newest first.
| Model | Release | ECI | ELO | LiveBench | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Medium 3 | May 7, 2025 | 134.06 | n/a | n/a | API access |
| Mistral Small 3.1 | Mar 17, 2025 | 127.49 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Mistral Small 3 | Jan 30, 2025 | 127.08 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Mistral Large 2 (Nov 2024) | Nov 18, 2024 | 128.53 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (non-commercial) |
| Ministral 3B | Oct 16, 2024 | 118.12 | n/a | n/a | API access |
| Mistral NeMo | Jul 18, 2024 | 118.71 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Mistral 7B v0.3 | May 27, 2024 | 109.06 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Mixtral 8x22B | Apr 17, 2024 | 122.05 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Mistral Large | Feb 26, 2024 | 122.03 | n/a | n/a | API access |
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What people ask about Ministral 3B
Where does Ministral 3B rank among AI models?
In the ROO3 AI Benchmark, ordered by the Epoch AI ECI, Ministral 3B ranks #202 out of 267 models, with an ECI of 118.12. The ECI is a composite index that combines several hard benchmarks into a single scale. The position changes when a new model comes out, and the page is refreshed six times a day.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
From the same three sources as the ranking, all openly licensed: Epoch AI (ECI and individual tests, CC BY 4.0), Arena (human-preference ELO, CC BY 4.0) and LiveBench (overall average, CC BY-SA 4.0). ROO3 does not measure any model. When the page shows a figure published by the maker itself, it appears in the written analysis, labeled as the maker's, and never enters the ranking.
Where each number comes from
Epoch AI, "AI Benchmarking Hub". Published at epoch.ai. Data under the CC BY 4.0 licence, reordered by roo3.co.
The Arena (LMArena) leaderboard, from the public lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, under the CC BY 4.0 licence. We are not affiliated with the Arena.
LiveBench, by the LiveBench team, published at livebench.ai under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The overall average is recomputed by roo3.co with the same formula as the website (average of the categories), and those numbers stay under CC BY-SA 4.0. We are not affiliated with LiveBench.
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