Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 81 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 60.3 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 58 to 21.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is the reasoning model in the pair, while Seed-2.0-Mini 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. Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 256K for Seed-2.0-Mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

78.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
87
BrowseComp
53
73
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

60.3

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

91
HumanEval
55
58
SWE-bench Verified
22
58
LiveCodeBench
21
63
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

95

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

95
MMMU-Pro
74
95
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

95
SimpleQA
59
93
MuSR
57
95
BBH
73
94
LongBench v2
68
96
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

74.7

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

99
MMLU
62
97
GPQA
61
95
SuperGPQA
59
93
OpenBookQA
57
81
MMLU-Pro
62
32
HLE
1
88
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

89

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

89
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

87.4

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

92
MGSM
75
85
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

99
AIME 2023
62
99
AIME 2024
64
98
AIME 2025
63
95
HMMT Feb 2023
58
97
HMMT Feb 2024
60
96
HMMT Feb 2025
59
96
BRUMO 2025
61
92
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 81 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 58 and 21.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.3 versus 24.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 64.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 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, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 73.1. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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