Seed-2.0-Lite vs Gemini 1.5 Pro

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

Seed-2.0-Lite is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 52. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed-2.0-Lite's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 41.4 against 18.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 45 to 5.

Gemini 1.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 256K for Seed-2.0-Lite.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 1.5 Pro only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 2M context window.

Agentic

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

Gemini 1.5 Pro

49.8

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
45
63
BrowseComp
64
53
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Gemini 1.5 Pro

18.5

63
HumanEval
56
45
SWE-bench Verified
5
37
LiveCodeBench
22
45
SWE-bench Pro
18

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Gemini 1.5 Pro

74.1

80
MMMU-Pro
75
79
OfficeQA Pro
73

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Gemini 1.5 Pro

66.9

68
SimpleQA
62
66
MuSR
60
85
BBH
74
76
LongBench v2
70
77
MRCRv2
73

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Gemini 1.5 Pro

44.2

71
MMLU
64
70
GPQA
64
68
SuperGPQA
62
66
OpenBookQA
60
73
MMLU-Pro
57
7
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Gemini 1.5 Pro

77

89
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Gemini 1.5 Pro

69.5

87
MGSM
76
80
MMLU-ProX
66

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Gemini 1.5 Pro

67.5

71
AIME 2023
64
73
AIME 2024
66
72
AIME 2025
65
67
HMMT Feb 2023
60
69
HMMT Feb 2024
62
68
HMMT Feb 2025
61
70
BRUMO 2025
63
81
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 52. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 45 and 5.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 18.5. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Lite or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 67.5. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Lite or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 66.9. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 49.8. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 74.1. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed-2.0-Lite or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 77. 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 Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 69.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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