DeepSeek LLM 2.0 vs Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 62 versus 60. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

DeepSeek LLM 2.0's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 42.9 against 35. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 73 to 62. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while DeepSeek LLM 2.0 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek LLM 2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

57.9

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

57
Terminal-Bench 2.0
60
62
BrowseComp
61
56
OSWorld-Verified
55

Coding

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

42.9

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

73
HumanEval
62
46
SWE-bench Verified
39
39
LiveCodeBench
33
46
SWE-bench Pro
36

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

64.5

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

60
MMMU-Pro
71
70
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

73.6

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

77
SimpleQA
70
75
MuSR
70
81
BBH
80
70
LongBench v2
66
69
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

57.5

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

79
MMLU
71
78
GPQA
70
76
SuperGPQA
68
74
OpenBookQA
66
72
MMLU-Pro
69
12
HLE
7
67
FrontierScience
62

Instruction Following

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

85

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

85
IFEval
81

Multilingual

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

78.8

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

82
MGSM
81
77
MMLU-ProX
76

Mathematics

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

80.8

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

80
AIME 2023
73
82
AIME 2024
75
81
AIME 2025
74
76
HMMT Feb 2023
69
78
HMMT Feb 2024
71
77
HMMT Feb 2025
70
79
BRUMO 2025
72
83
MATH-500
79

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 is ahead overall, 62 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 73 and 62.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.5 versus 52.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 42.9 versus 35. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 75.2. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.6 versus 69.2. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 57.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 64.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 81. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 77.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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