Seed-2.0-Mini vs Ministral 3 8B

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 32. 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 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 74 to 27.

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 8B. 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 8B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B 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 8B

28.9

43
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
53
BrowseComp
36
45
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

55
HumanEval
23
22
SWE-bench Verified
16
21
LiveCodeBench
15
29
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

74
MMMU-Pro
27
72
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

59
SimpleQA
28
57
MuSR
26
73
BBH
63
68
LongBench v2
38
72
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

Ministral 3 8B

28

62
MMLU
28
61
GPQA
27
59
SuperGPQA
25
57
OpenBookQA
23
62
MMLU-Pro
52
1
HLE
3
54
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

Ministral 3 8B

69

80
IFEval
69

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

75
MGSM
63
70
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

62
AIME 2023
30
64
AIME 2024
32
63
AIME 2025
33
58
HMMT Feb 2023
26
60
HMMT Feb 2024
28
59
HMMT Feb 2025
27
61
BRUMO 2025
29
70
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Mini or Ministral 3 8B?

Seed-2.0-Mini is ahead overall, 53 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 74 and 27.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Mini or Ministral 3 8B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.6 versus 28. 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 8B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 24.7 versus 14.2. 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 8B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.1 versus 43.3. 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 8B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 64.8 versus 36.1. 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 8B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 46.2 versus 28.9. 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 8B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 32.4. 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 8B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 69. 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 8B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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