Seed-2.0-Lite vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet

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.

Quick Verdict

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.

Agentic

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

55

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
54
63
BrowseComp
62
53
OSWorld-Verified
51

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

37.8

63
HumanEval
57
45
SWE-bench Verified
36
37
LiveCodeBench
39
45
SWE-bench Pro
37

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

74.8

80
MMMU-Pro
77
79
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

67.7

68
SimpleQA
63
66
MuSR
61
85
BBH
83
76
LongBench v2
70
77
MRCRv2
70

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

50.8

71
MMLU
65
70
GPQA
65
68
SuperGPQA
63
66
OpenBookQA
61
73
MMLU-Pro
74
7
HLE
5
66
FrontierScience
59

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

83

89
IFEval
83

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

80.5

87
MGSM
85
80
MMLU-ProX
78

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

71.2

71
AIME 2023
65
73
AIME 2024
67
72
AIME 2025
66
67
HMMT Feb 2023
61
69
HMMT Feb 2024
63
68
HMMT Feb 2025
62
70
BRUMO 2025
64
81
MATH-500
80

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

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.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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