Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 63 versus 60. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Seed-2.0-Lite's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 89 against 83. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 45 to 36.
Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Seed-2.0-Lite
55.1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
55
Seed-2.0-Lite
41.4
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
37.8
Seed-2.0-Lite
79.6
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
74.8
Seed-2.0-Lite
73
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
67.7
Seed-2.0-Lite
53.9
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
50.8
Seed-2.0-Lite
89
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
83
Seed-2.0-Lite
82.5
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
80.5
Seed-2.0-Lite
75
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
71.2
Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 45 and 36.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 50.8. Inside this category, FrontierScience is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 37.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 71.2. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 67.7. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 55. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 74.8. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 80.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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