Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 58.5 against 46.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 60 to 43. 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 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning). That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) 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. Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) 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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
61
BrowseComp
53
55
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

62
HumanEval
55
39
SWE-bench Verified
22
33
LiveCodeBench
21
36
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

71
MMMU-Pro
74
72
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

70
SimpleQA
59
70
MuSR
57
80
BBH
73
66
LongBench v2
68
66
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

71
MMLU
62
70
GPQA
61
68
SuperGPQA
59
66
OpenBookQA
57
69
MMLU-Pro
62
7
HLE
1
62
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

81
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

81
MGSM
75
76
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

73
AIME 2023
62
75
AIME 2024
64
74
AIME 2025
63
69
HMMT Feb 2023
58
71
HMMT Feb 2024
60
70
HMMT Feb 2025
59
72
BRUMO 2025
61
79
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 60 and 43.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 24.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 64.8. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 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, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 71.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 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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