DeepSeekMath V2 vs Ministral 3 14B

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

DeepSeekMath V2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

DeepSeekMath V2's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 63.9 against 48.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MATH-500, 90 to 72. 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.

DeepSeekMath V2 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 14B 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 DeepSeekMath V2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

63.9

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

65
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
66
BrowseComp
55
61
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

47.3

Ministral 3 14B

33

72
HumanEval
58
45
SWE-bench Verified
37
44
LiveCodeBench
31
51
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

DeepSeekMath V2

68.1

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

64
MMMU-Pro
70
73
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

75.9

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

77
SimpleQA
66
75
MuSR
64
86
BBH
74
75
LongBench v2
60
72
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

61

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

80
MMLU
69
79
GPQA
68
77
SuperGPQA
66
75
OpenBookQA
64
74
MMLU-Pro
67
18
HLE
5
73
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

83

Ministral 3 14B

80

83
IFEval
80

Multilingual

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

82.5

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

87
MGSM
80
80
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

84

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

80
AIME 2023
68
82
AIME 2024
70
81
AIME 2025
72
76
HMMT Feb 2023
64
78
HMMT Feb 2024
66
77
HMMT Feb 2025
65
79
BRUMO 2025
67
90
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeekMath V2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeekMath V2 is ahead overall, 66 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MATH-500, where the scores are 90 and 72.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61 versus 50.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeekMath V2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 47.3 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeekMath V2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 69.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeekMath V2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.9 versus 63.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.9 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, DeepSeekMath V2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 68.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeekMath V2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Ministral 3 14B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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