DeepSeek V3.2 vs Ministral 3 14B

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

DeepSeek V3.2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

DeepSeek V3.2's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 82.1 against 69.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 76 to 58. Ministral 3 14B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek V3.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.

Agentic

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

58.8

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
62
BrowseComp
55
55
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

43.2

Ministral 3 14B

33

76
HumanEval
58
45
SWE-bench Verified
37
39
LiveCodeBench
31
47
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

DeepSeek V3.2

66

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

61
MMMU-Pro
70
72
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

75.3

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

81
SimpleQA
66
79
MuSR
64
81
BBH
74
69
LongBench v2
60
70
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

60

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

84
MMLU
69
83
GPQA
68
81
SuperGPQA
66
79
OpenBookQA
64
73
MMLU-Pro
67
11
HLE
5
72
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

85

Ministral 3 14B

80

85
IFEval
80

Multilingual

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

82.1

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

84
MGSM
80
81
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

82.1

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

84
AIME 2023
68
86
AIME 2024
70
85
AIME 2025
72
80
HMMT Feb 2023
64
82
HMMT Feb 2024
66
81
HMMT Feb 2025
65
83
BRUMO 2025
67
81
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeek V3.2 is ahead overall, 64 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 76 and 58.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60 versus 50.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.2 versus 33. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3.2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 69.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3.2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.3 versus 63.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.8 versus 48.4. 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 V3.2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 66. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek V3.2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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