Seed-2.0-Mini vs Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

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

Seed-2.0-Mini is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 53 to 44. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed-2.0-Mini's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 65.1 against 48.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 55 to 30. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while Seed-2.0-Mini 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-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

46.7

43
Terminal-Bench 2.0
45
53
BrowseComp
49
45
OSWorld-Verified
47

Coding

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

21.8

55
HumanEval
30
22
SWE-bench Verified
20
21
LiveCodeBench
15
29
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

59.3

74
MMMU-Pro
62
72
OfficeQA Pro
56

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

49.4

59
SimpleQA
36
57
MuSR
34
73
BBH
67
68
LongBench v2
60
72
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

34.3

62
MMLU
38
61
GPQA
37
59
SuperGPQA
35
57
OpenBookQA
33
62
MMLU-Pro
53
1
HLE
8
54
FrontierScience
41

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

66

80
IFEval
66

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

58.7

75
MGSM
60
70
MMLU-ProX
58

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

48.3

62
AIME 2023
38
64
AIME 2024
40
63
AIME 2025
39
58
HMMT Feb 2023
34
60
HMMT Feb 2024
36
59
HMMT Feb 2025
35
61
BRUMO 2025
37
70
MATH-500
62

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Mini or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Seed-2.0-Mini is ahead overall, 53 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 55 and 30.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Mini or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.6 versus 34.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Mini or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 24.7 versus 21.8. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Mini or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.1 versus 48.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Mini or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 64.8 versus 49.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Mini or Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 46.7 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 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 59.3. 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 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 66. 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 4.1 Opus Thinking?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 58.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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