Claude Opus 4.6 vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

Claude Opus 4.6 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 85 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Opus 4.6's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 75.1 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 80 to 22.

Claude Opus 4.6 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $15.00 input / $75.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens for Seed-2.0-Mini. That is roughly 187.5x on output cost alone. Claude Opus 4.6 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Seed-2.0-Mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

79.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

80
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
85
BrowseComp
53
74
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

75.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

91
HumanEval
55
80
SWE-bench Verified
22
75
LiveCodeBench
21
74
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

94.6

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

95
MMMU-Pro
74
94
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

93.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

95
SimpleQA
59
93
MuSR
57
94
BBH
73
92
LongBench v2
68
92
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

78.9

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

99
MMLU
62
97
GPQA
61
95
SuperGPQA
59
93
OpenBookQA
57
92
MMLU-Pro
62
38
HLE
1
88
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

95

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

95
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

94.7

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

96
MGSM
75
94
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

97.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

99
AIME 2023
62
99
AIME 2024
64
98
AIME 2025
63
95
HMMT Feb 2023
58
97
HMMT Feb 2024
60
96
HMMT Feb 2025
59
96
BRUMO 2025
61
98
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall, 85 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 80 and 22.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.6 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.9 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.6 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 75.1 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 Opus 4.6 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97.2 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude Opus 4.6 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 93.1 versus 64.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude Opus 4.6 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.2 versus 46.2. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude Opus 4.6 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.6 versus 73.1. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude Opus 4.6 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude Opus 4.6 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.7 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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