Self-hosting and data control
Choose Ministral 3 14B
Ministral 3 14B has open weights, so you can run it on your own servers; Command A Reasoning is only available through its provider.
Command A Reasoning vs Ministral 3 14B: price, context and capabilities
Choose Ministral 3 14B for self-hosting and data control, images as input and the latest release; on the other points the two are level or the data is missing.
In short
- A price comparison is not possible: one of them has no comparable published price.
- Both accept 256k tokens per request.
- Ministral 3 14B is the newer model (December 2025, against August 2025).
- Only Command A Reasoning offers reasoning.
- Only Ministral 3 14B offers vision, self-hostable.
Which should you choose?
Each answer below comes straight from the published prices, specifications and independent benchmark results.
Images as input
Choose Ministral 3 14B
Ministral 3 14B accepts images as input; Command A Reasoning does not.
Latest release
Choose Ministral 3 14B
Ministral 3 14B is the newer release (December 2025, against August 2025 for Command A Reasoning).
Specifications side by side
| Command A Reasoning | Ministral 3 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Category | Language models | Language models |
| Status | Generally available | Generally available |
| Headline price | No data | No data |
| Input | No data | No data |
| Output | No data | No data |
| Cached input | No data | No data |
| Context window | 256k | 256k |
| Max output | No data | No data |
| Released | August 2025 | December 2025 |
| Knowledge cutoff | No data | No data |
| Licence | Proprietary | Open weights |
| Capabilities | Reasoning, Tool calling | Vision, Tool calling, Self-hostable |
| API model id | command-a-reasoning-08-2025 | ministral-14b-2512 |
Benchmarks side by side
Leader in bold.
| Benchmark | Command A Reasoning | Ministral 3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | No data | 6 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | No data | 4.5% |
| SciCode | No data | 23.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | No data | 57.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | No data | 4.6% |
| IFBench (instruction following) | No data | 32% |
| τ²-Bench (agentic tool use) | No data | 27.2% |
| MMMU-Pro (visual reasoning) | No data | 49.8% |
| Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR) | No data | 26.3% |
Independent evaluations by Artificial Analysis, run the same way for every model, at the reasoning setting shown. Percentages unless marked as an index.
Frequently asked questions
Should I choose Command A Reasoning or Ministral 3 14B?
Choose Ministral 3 14B for self-hosting and data control, images as input and the latest release; on the other points the two are level or the data is missing.
Which is cheaper, Command A Reasoning or Ministral 3 14B?
A price comparison is not possible: one of them has no comparable published price.
Which has the larger context window, Command A Reasoning or Ministral 3 14B?
Both accept 256k tokens per request.
What is the difference between Command A Reasoning and Ministral 3 14B?
Command A Reasoning is made by Cohere and Ministral 3 14B by Mistral AI. A price comparison is not possible: one of them has no comparable published price. Both accept 256k tokens per request. Ministral 3 14B is the newer model (December 2025, against August 2025). Only Command A Reasoning offers reasoning. Only Ministral 3 14B offers vision, self-hostable.
Which is newer, Command A Reasoning or Ministral 3 14B?
Ministral 3 14B was released on December 2025 and Command A Reasoning on August 2025.