DeepSeek LLM 2.0 vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 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.

DeepSeek LLM 2.0'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, 46 to 22. Seed-2.0-Mini does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek LLM 2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

57.9

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

57
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
62
BrowseComp
53
56
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

42.9

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

73
HumanEval
55
46
SWE-bench Verified
22
39
LiveCodeBench
21
46
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

64.5

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

60
MMMU-Pro
74
70
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

73.6

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

77
SimpleQA
59
75
MuSR
57
81
BBH
73
70
LongBench v2
68
69
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

57.5

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

79
MMLU
62
78
GPQA
61
76
SuperGPQA
59
74
OpenBookQA
57
72
MMLU-Pro
62
12
HLE
1
67
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

85

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

85
IFEval
80

Multilingual

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

78.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

82
MGSM
75
77
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

80.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

80
AIME 2023
62
82
AIME 2024
64
81
AIME 2025
63
76
HMMT Feb 2023
58
78
HMMT Feb 2024
60
77
HMMT Feb 2025
59
79
BRUMO 2025
61
83
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 is ahead overall, 62 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 46 and 22.

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.5 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 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.

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.6 versus 64.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 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.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 64.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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