Seed-2.0-Mini vs Claude 3 Opus

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

Seed-2.0-Mini has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 53 versus 51. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Seed-2.0-Mini's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 24.7 against 19. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 22 to 10. Claude 3 Opus does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Opus only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority.

Agentic

Claude 3 Opus

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

Claude 3 Opus

48.1

43
Terminal-Bench 2.0
44
53
BrowseComp
56
45
OSWorld-Verified
47

Coding

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

Claude 3 Opus

19

55
HumanEval
53
22
SWE-bench Verified
10
21
LiveCodeBench
20
29
SWE-bench Pro
20

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

Claude 3 Opus

70.3

74
MMMU-Pro
73
72
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

Claude 3 Opus

61.6

59
SimpleQA
59
57
MuSR
57
73
BBH
74
68
LongBench v2
62
72
MRCRv2
63

Knowledge

Claude 3 Opus

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

Claude 3 Opus

45

62
MMLU
61
61
GPQA
61
59
SuperGPQA
59
57
OpenBookQA
57
62
MMLU-Pro
62
1
HLE
1
54
FrontierScience
56

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

Claude 3 Opus

77

80
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

Claude 3 Opus

69.8

75
MGSM
73
70
MMLU-ProX
68

Mathematics

Claude 3 Opus

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

Claude 3 Opus

65.9

62
AIME 2023
61
64
AIME 2024
63
63
AIME 2025
62
58
HMMT Feb 2023
57
60
HMMT Feb 2024
59
59
HMMT Feb 2025
58
61
BRUMO 2025
60
70
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Seed-2.0-Mini is ahead overall, 53 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 22 and 10.

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

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 44.6. Inside this category, FrontierScience is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

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

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.9 versus 65.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Mini or Claude 3 Opus?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 64.8 versus 61.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.1 versus 46.2. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Seed-2.0-Mini or Claude 3 Opus?

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

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

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