Seed-2.0-Mini vs DBRX Instruct

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 37. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 73.1 against 35.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 74 to 36. DBRX Instruct does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Seed-2.0-Mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for DBRX Instruct. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DBRX Instruct only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

DBRX Instruct

34.3

43
Terminal-Bench 2.0
41
53
BrowseComp
31
45
OSWorld-Verified
29

Coding

DBRX Instruct

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

DBRX Instruct

48

55
HumanEval
70.1
22
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
21
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
29
SWE-bench Pro
48

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

DBRX Instruct

35.6

74
MMMU-Pro
36
72
OfficeQA Pro
35

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

DBRX Instruct

36.4

59
SimpleQA
Coming soon
57
MuSR
Coming soon
73
BBH
Coming soon
68
LongBench v2
36
72
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

DBRX Instruct

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

DBRX Instruct

52

62
MMLU
73.7
61
GPQA
Coming soon
59
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
57
OpenBookQA
Coming soon
62
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
1
HLE
Coming soon
54
FrontierScience
52

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

80
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

DBRX Instruct

46

75
MGSM
Coming soon
70
MMLU-ProX
46

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

62
AIME 2023
Coming soon
64
AIME 2024
Coming soon
63
AIME 2025
Coming soon
58
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
60
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
59
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
61
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
70
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Mini or DBRX Instruct?

Seed-2.0-Mini is ahead overall, 53 to 37. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 74 and 36.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Mini or DBRX Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Mini or DBRX Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 24.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Mini or DBRX Instruct?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 64.8 versus 36.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Mini or DBRX Instruct?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 46.2 versus 34.3. 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 DBRX Instruct?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 35.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed-2.0-Mini or DBRX Instruct?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 46. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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