Seed-2.0-Lite vs Claude 3 Opus

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 51. 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 coding, where it averages 41.4 against 19. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 45 to 10.

Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 3 Opus.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus

48.1

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
44
63
BrowseComp
56
53
OSWorld-Verified
47

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Claude 3 Opus

19

63
HumanEval
53
45
SWE-bench Verified
10
37
LiveCodeBench
20
45
SWE-bench Pro
20

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Claude 3 Opus

70.3

80
MMMU-Pro
73
79
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Claude 3 Opus

61.6

68
SimpleQA
59
66
MuSR
57
85
BBH
74
76
LongBench v2
62
77
MRCRv2
63

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Claude 3 Opus

45

71
MMLU
61
70
GPQA
61
68
SuperGPQA
59
66
OpenBookQA
57
73
MMLU-Pro
62
7
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
56

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Claude 3 Opus

77

89
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Claude 3 Opus

69.8

87
MGSM
73
80
MMLU-ProX
68

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Claude 3 Opus

65.9

71
AIME 2023
61
73
AIME 2024
63
72
AIME 2025
62
67
HMMT Feb 2023
57
69
HMMT Feb 2024
59
68
HMMT Feb 2025
58
70
BRUMO 2025
60
81
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 45 and 10.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 45. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 19. 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 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 65.9. 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 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 61.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Claude 3 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 48.1. 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 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 70.3. 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 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 77. 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 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 69.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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