Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
DeepSeek V3.1 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 35 versus 32. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
DeepSeek V3.1's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 39.5 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 35 to 27. Ministral 3 8B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Pick DeepSeek V3.1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
DeepSeek V3.1
32.9
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
DeepSeek V3.1
14.8
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
DeepSeek V3.1
39.5
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
DeepSeek V3.1
40.7
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
DeepSeek V3.1
30.5
Ministral 3 8B
28
DeepSeek V3.1
67
Ministral 3 8B
69
DeepSeek V3.1
60.8
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
DeepSeek V3.1
44.2
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
DeepSeek V3.1 is ahead overall, 35 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 35 and 27.
DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 30.5 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.8 versus 14.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 40.7 versus 36.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 32.9 versus 28.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.5 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 69 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 60.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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