Seed-2.0-Lite vs Ministral 3 3B

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 27. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 79.6 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 80 to 25.

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 3B. 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 3B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B 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 3B

22.9

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
63
BrowseComp
33
53
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

63
HumanEval
15
45
SWE-bench Verified
8
37
LiveCodeBench
7
45
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

80
MMMU-Pro
25
79
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

68
SimpleQA
22
66
MuSR
20
85
BBH
57
76
LongBench v2
32
77
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

71
MMLU
24
70
GPQA
23
68
SuperGPQA
21
66
OpenBookQA
19
73
MMLU-Pro
48
7
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Ministral 3 3B

67

89
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

87
MGSM
61
80
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Ministral 3 3B

36

71
AIME 2023
23
73
AIME 2024
25
72
AIME 2025
24
67
HMMT Feb 2023
19
69
HMMT Feb 2024
21
68
HMMT Feb 2025
20
70
BRUMO 2025
22
81
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 80 and 25.

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

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 22.9. 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, Seed-2.0-Lite or Ministral 3 3B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 30.4. 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 3B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 67. 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 3B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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