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Claude Opus 4.1 vs Ministral 3 14B-25-12

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1
Mistral
Ministral 3 14B-25-12
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateAug 5 2025Dec 2 2025
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
43%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
74.5%
Science
GPQA Diamond
80.9%
Timeline
Release gapClaude Opus 4.1 shipped 119 days before Ministral 3 14B-25-12

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.1 or Ministral 3 14B-25-12?

Claude Opus 4.1 and Ministral 3 14B-25-12 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude Opus 4.1 shipped 119 days before Ministral 3 14B-25-12, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Opus 4.1 is proprietary, while Ministral 3 14B-25-12 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Opus 4.1 and Ministral 3 14B-25-12 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Opus 4.1 was released by Anthropic on Aug 5 2025.

Ministral 3 14B-25-12 was released by Mistral on Dec 2 2025.

Claude Opus 4.1 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Ministral 3 14B-25-12 is an open weight model released by Mistral.

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