DeepSeek V3.2 vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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 53. 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 coding, where it averages 43.2 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 45 to 22. Seed-2.0-Mini does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.2.

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek V3.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

58.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
62
BrowseComp
53
55
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

43.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

76
HumanEval
55
45
SWE-bench Verified
22
39
LiveCodeBench
21
47
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

DeepSeek V3.2

66

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

61
MMMU-Pro
74
72
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

75.3

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

81
SimpleQA
59
79
MuSR
57
81
BBH
73
69
LongBench v2
68
70
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

60

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

84
MMLU
62
83
GPQA
61
81
SuperGPQA
59
79
OpenBookQA
57
73
MMLU-Pro
62
11
HLE
1
72
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

85

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

85
IFEval
80

Multilingual

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

82.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

84
MGSM
75
81
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

82.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

84
AIME 2023
62
86
AIME 2024
64
85
AIME 2025
63
80
HMMT Feb 2023
58
82
HMMT Feb 2024
60
81
HMMT Feb 2025
59
83
BRUMO 2025
61
81
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

DeepSeek V3.2 is ahead overall, 64 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 45 and 22.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.2 versus 24.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.3 versus 64.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.8 versus 46.2. 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 Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 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 Seed-2.0-Mini?

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 Seed-2.0-Mini?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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