Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

Claude Haiku 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Haiku 4.5's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 41.7 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 48 to 22.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.80 input / $4.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens for Seed-2.0-Mini. That is roughly 10.0x on output cost alone. Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude Haiku 4.5.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

56.7

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

53
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
62
BrowseComp
53
57
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

41.7

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

60
HumanEval
55
48
SWE-bench Verified
22
36
LiveCodeBench
21
46
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

78.4

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

82
MMMU-Pro
74
74
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

68.9

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

65
SimpleQA
59
63
MuSR
57
81
BBH
73
72
LongBench v2
68
70
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

53.6

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

68
MMLU
62
67
GPQA
61
65
SuperGPQA
59
63
OpenBookQA
57
73
MMLU-Pro
62
11
HLE
1
64
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

86

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

86
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

80.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

82
MGSM
75
79
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

73.3

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

68
AIME 2023
62
70
AIME 2024
64
69
AIME 2025
63
64
HMMT Feb 2023
58
66
HMMT Feb 2024
60
65
HMMT Feb 2025
59
67
BRUMO 2025
61
81
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is ahead overall, 62 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 48 and 22.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.6 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.7 versus 24.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 73.3 versus 65.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 68.9 versus 64.8. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.7 versus 46.2. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.4 versus 73.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.1 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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