Ministral 3 14B vs DeepSeek V3.1

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

Ministral 3 14B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 55 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 70.5 against 39.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 72 to 34.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.1 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

DeepSeek V3.1

32.9

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
29
55
BrowseComp
39
44
OSWorld-Verified
33

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

DeepSeek V3.1

14.8

58
HumanEval
25
37
SWE-bench Verified
13
31
LiveCodeBench
15
34
SWE-bench Pro
15

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

DeepSeek V3.1

39.5

70
MMMU-Pro
35
71
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

DeepSeek V3.1

40.7

66
SimpleQA
31
64
MuSR
29
74
BBH
61
60
LongBench v2
46
60
MRCRv2
48

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

DeepSeek V3.1

30.5

69
MMLU
33
68
GPQA
32
66
SuperGPQA
30
64
OpenBookQA
28
67
MMLU-Pro
53
5
HLE
2
60
FrontierScience
37

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

DeepSeek V3.1

67

80
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

DeepSeek V3.1

60.8

80
MGSM
64
75
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

DeepSeek V3.1

44.2

68
AIME 2023
33
70
AIME 2024
35
72
AIME 2025
34
64
HMMT Feb 2023
29
66
HMMT Feb 2024
31
65
HMMT Feb 2025
30
67
BRUMO 2025
32
72
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or DeepSeek V3.1?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 72 and 34.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or DeepSeek V3.1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 30.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or DeepSeek V3.1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 14.8. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or DeepSeek V3.1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 44.2. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or DeepSeek V3.1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 40.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or DeepSeek V3.1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 32.9. 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, Ministral 3 14B or DeepSeek V3.1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 39.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or DeepSeek V3.1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or DeepSeek V3.1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 60.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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