Seed-2.0-Lite vs Ministral 3 14B

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

Seed-2.0-Lite is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed-2.0-Lite's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 73 against 63.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 77 to 60.

Seed-2.0-Lite is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.25 input / $2.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 14B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
63
BrowseComp
55
53
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Ministral 3 14B

33

63
HumanEval
58
45
SWE-bench Verified
37
37
LiveCodeBench
31
45
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

80
MMMU-Pro
70
79
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

68
SimpleQA
66
66
MuSR
64
85
BBH
74
76
LongBench v2
60
77
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

71
MMLU
69
70
GPQA
68
68
SuperGPQA
66
66
OpenBookQA
64
73
MMLU-Pro
67
7
HLE
5
66
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Ministral 3 14B

80

89
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

87
MGSM
80
80
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

71
AIME 2023
68
73
AIME 2024
70
72
AIME 2025
72
67
HMMT Feb 2023
64
69
HMMT Feb 2024
66
68
HMMT Feb 2025
65
70
BRUMO 2025
67
81
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 14B?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 77 and 60.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 14B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 50.1. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 14B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 14B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 69.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 14B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 63.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 14B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 48.4. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 14B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 70.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 14B?

Seed-2.0-Lite 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, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 14B?

Seed-2.0-Lite 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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