DeepSeek V3.2 vs Seed-2.0-Lite

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

DeepSeek V3.2 finishes one point ahead overall, 64 to 63. 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.

DeepSeek V3.2's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 82.1 against 75. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 61 to 80. Seed-2.0-Lite 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-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.2.

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek V3.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Lite only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

58.8

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
52
62
BrowseComp
63
55
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

43.2

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

76
HumanEval
63
45
SWE-bench Verified
45
39
LiveCodeBench
37
47
SWE-bench Pro
45

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

DeepSeek V3.2

66

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

61
MMMU-Pro
80
72
OfficeQA Pro
79

Reasoning

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

75.3

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

81
SimpleQA
68
79
MuSR
66
81
BBH
85
69
LongBench v2
76
70
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

60

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

84
MMLU
71
83
GPQA
70
81
SuperGPQA
68
79
OpenBookQA
66
73
MMLU-Pro
73
11
HLE
7
72
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

DeepSeek V3.2

85

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

85
IFEval
89

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

DeepSeek V3.2

82.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

84
MGSM
87
81
MMLU-ProX
80

Mathematics

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

82.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

84
AIME 2023
71
86
AIME 2024
73
85
AIME 2025
72
80
HMMT Feb 2023
67
82
HMMT Feb 2024
69
81
HMMT Feb 2025
68
83
BRUMO 2025
70
81
MATH-500
81

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeek V3.2 is ahead overall, 64 to 63. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 61 and 80.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60 versus 53.9. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.2 versus 41.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 75. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.3 versus 73. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.8 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, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 66. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

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, DeepSeek V3.2 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 82.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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