Seed-2.0-Mini vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Seed-2.0-Mini is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 53 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed-2.0-Mini's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 73.1 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 74 to 25.

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 3B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 3B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Mini 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-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

43
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
53
BrowseComp
33
45
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

55
HumanEval
15
22
SWE-bench Verified
8
21
LiveCodeBench
7
29
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

74
MMMU-Pro
25
72
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

59
SimpleQA
22
57
MuSR
20
73
BBH
57
68
LongBench v2
32
72
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

62
MMLU
24
61
GPQA
23
59
SuperGPQA
21
57
OpenBookQA
19
62
MMLU-Pro
48
1
HLE
1
54
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

Ministral 3 3B

67

80
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

75
MGSM
61
70
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

Ministral 3 3B

36

62
AIME 2023
23
64
AIME 2024
25
63
AIME 2025
24
58
HMMT Feb 2023
19
60
HMMT Feb 2024
21
59
HMMT Feb 2025
20
61
BRUMO 2025
22
70
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Seed-2.0-Mini is ahead overall, 53 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 74 and 25.

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

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.6 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-Mini or Ministral 3 3B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 24.7 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-Mini or Ministral 3 3B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.1 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-Mini or Ministral 3 3B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 64.8 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-Mini or Ministral 3 3B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 46.2 versus 22.9. 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-Mini or Ministral 3 3B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 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-Mini or Ministral 3 3B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 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-Mini or Ministral 3 3B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 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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