Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B and Ministral 3B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Ministral 3B shipped 2 days before Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is proprietary, while Ministral 3B is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B and Ministral 3B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.