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 44. 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 mathematics, where it averages 75 against 48.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 63 to 30.
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while Seed-2.0-Lite is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking.
Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Seed-2.0-Lite
55.1
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
46.7
Seed-2.0-Lite
41.4
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
21.8
Seed-2.0-Lite
79.6
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
59.3
Seed-2.0-Lite
73
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
49.4
Seed-2.0-Lite
53.9
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
34.3
Seed-2.0-Lite
89
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
66
Seed-2.0-Lite
82.5
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
58.7
Seed-2.0-Lite
75
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
48.3
Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 63 and 30.
Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 34.3. Inside this category, MMLU 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 21.8. Inside this category, HumanEval 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 48.3. 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 49.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA 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 46.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp 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 59.3. 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 66. 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 58.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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