Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Ministral 3 14B 2512
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads Ministral 3 14B 2512 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 29.7 to 6.0, and Ministral 3 14B 2512 costs 60.0x less per output token ($0.20 vs $12.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 7 benchmarks have a result for both.
vs boards won of 7 shared
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Ministral 3 14B 2512: which to pick
Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has a coding score, 32.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Ministral 3 14B 2512 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Ministral 3 14B 2512 for output tokens 60.0x cheaper ($0.20 vs $12.00 per million).
Model AGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle32.3/1004 independent benchmarks$0.99 per solved taskModel BMinistral 3 14B 2512Mistral AINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 7
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview only
- 130
- Ministral 3 14B 2512 only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads, 29.7 against 6.0.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads, 8.2 against 1.1.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has a GPQA Diamond result, 95.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has a AIME result, 98.1%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has a MMLU Pro result, 91.0%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads, 1234 against 1081.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Ministral 3 14B 2512
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $0.0080, Ministral 3 14B 2512 $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has the number, $0.99.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 32.3 from 4 benchmarks, Ministral 3 14B 2512 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 54.4 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- AA Coding Index: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 68.8 against Ministral 3 14B 2512 14.4, 54.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $12.00 against Ministral 3 14B 2512 $0.20 per million output tokens, 60.0x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview takes 1.05M tokens, Ministral 3 14B 2512 262K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Bars | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 4 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 7 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1447 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| AA Coding Index | 68.8 | 14.4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 88.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 78.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 2.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 32.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 17.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 51.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 70.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 6.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| SciCode | 58.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 53.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 80.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| GSO-Bench | 22.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| WeirdML | 72.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MirrorCode | 8.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1160.6 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1484 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1487 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1438 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1490 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1481 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| SciCode | 14.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 29.7 | 6.0 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 8.2 | 1.1 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1125 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1068 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1093 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1049 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1236 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1113 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1092 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1040 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 43.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 9.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 20.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 52.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 60.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 1.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Vals Science Index | 27.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 95.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| APEX-Agents | 35.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| METR time horizons | 77.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| BALROG | 57.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 47.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| PostTrainBench | 22.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $911 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MCP Atlas | 78.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index17 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 95.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 20.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 88.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 94.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 47.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 94.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| ARC-AGI | 98.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 77.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| SimpleBench | 79.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Chess puzzles | 51.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 34.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| EBR-bench | 14.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1485 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1483 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1480 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1311 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1316 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 98.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 95.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 59.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 26.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| ProofBench | 26.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1486 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1478 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MathArena | 30.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 91.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 87.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 64.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 64.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 72.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 69.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 96.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 59.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 73.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1497 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1486 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1487 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1459 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 67.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1234 | 1081 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1224 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1202 | 1037 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1209 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1234 | 989 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1230 | 1064 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1284 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1270 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 53.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 48.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 76.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| IFBench | 77.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| DTBench | 97.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMCA | 53.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| CL-bench | 20.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Furniture assembly | 26.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| ExploitBench | 26.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| CL-bench Life | 16.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text | 1480 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1466 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1482 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1296 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1478 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1476 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1527 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1490 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1491 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1455 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1487 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1481 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1497 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1498 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1487 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1482 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1481 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1465 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1287 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1364 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1304 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1322 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1345 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1330 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1324 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| LMArena Document | 1444 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| MultiChallenge | 71.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1142 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview$0.0080Fits in one request
Ministral 3 14B 2512$0.0003Fits in one request
Ministral 3 14B 2512 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview$0.136Fits in one request
Ministral 3 14B 2512$0.011Fits in one request
Ministral 3 14B 2512 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview$0.520Fits in one request
Ministral 3 14B 2512$0.042Fits in one request
Ministral 3 14B 2512 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Mistral Ministral 3 14B 2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral AI | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | February 19, 2026 | December 2, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.20 |
| Output $/Mtok | $12.00 | $0.20 |
| Coding index | 32.3 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 4 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.99 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better than Ministral 3 14B 2512 for coding?
Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has a coding score, 32.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Ministral 3 14B 2512 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Ministral 3 14B 2512 for output tokens 60.0x cheaper ($0.20 vs $12.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Ministral 3 14B 2512?
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million output tokens; Ministral 3 14B 2512 costs $0.20 and $0.20. Cost per solved task is known for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview only.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Ministral 3 14B 2512?
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Ministral 3 14B 2512 comparison based on?
7 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Ministral 3 14B 2512's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.