Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude 4 Sonnet is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude 4 Sonnet's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 42.9 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 51 to 22.
Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 4 Sonnet.
Pick Claude 4 Sonnet if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 256K context window.
Claude 4 Sonnet
57.9
Seed-2.0-Mini
46.2
Claude 4 Sonnet
42.9
Seed-2.0-Mini
24.7
Claude 4 Sonnet
79.7
Seed-2.0-Mini
73.1
Claude 4 Sonnet
71.8
Seed-2.0-Mini
64.8
Claude 4 Sonnet
56.8
Seed-2.0-Mini
44.6
Claude 4 Sonnet
83
Seed-2.0-Mini
80
Claude 4 Sonnet
82.1
Seed-2.0-Mini
71.8
Claude 4 Sonnet
76.1
Seed-2.0-Mini
65.1
Claude 4 Sonnet is ahead overall, 64 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 51 and 22.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.8 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 42.9 versus 24.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 76.1 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 64.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.9 versus 46.2. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 73.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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