Seed-2.0-Lite vs DeepSeek LLM 2.0

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

Seed-2.0-Lite finishes one point ahead overall, 63 to 62. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Seed-2.0-Lite's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 79.6 against 64.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 80 to 60. DeepSeek LLM 2.0 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek LLM 2.0.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek LLM 2.0 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.

Agentic

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

57.9

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
57
63
BrowseComp
62
53
OSWorld-Verified
56

Coding

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

42.9

63
HumanEval
73
45
SWE-bench Verified
46
37
LiveCodeBench
39
45
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

64.5

80
MMMU-Pro
60
79
OfficeQA Pro
70

Reasoning

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

73.6

68
SimpleQA
77
66
MuSR
75
85
BBH
81
76
LongBench v2
70
77
MRCRv2
69

Knowledge

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

57.5

71
MMLU
79
70
GPQA
78
68
SuperGPQA
76
66
OpenBookQA
74
73
MMLU-Pro
72
7
HLE
12
66
FrontierScience
67

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

85

89
IFEval
85

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

78.8

87
MGSM
82
80
MMLU-ProX
77

Mathematics

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

80.8

71
AIME 2023
80
73
AIME 2024
82
72
AIME 2025
81
67
HMMT Feb 2023
76
69
HMMT Feb 2024
78
68
HMMT Feb 2025
77
70
BRUMO 2025
79
81
MATH-500
83

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or DeepSeek LLM 2.0?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 80 and 60.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or DeepSeek LLM 2.0?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.5 versus 53.9. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or DeepSeek LLM 2.0?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 42.9 versus 41.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Lite or DeepSeek LLM 2.0?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 75. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Lite or DeepSeek LLM 2.0?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.6 versus 73. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or DeepSeek LLM 2.0?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.9 versus 55.1. 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, Seed-2.0-Lite or DeepSeek LLM 2.0?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 64.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed-2.0-Lite or DeepSeek LLM 2.0?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 85. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or DeepSeek LLM 2.0?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 78.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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