Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and Seed-2.0-Mini finish on the same overall score, so this is less about a single winner and more about where the edge shows up. The headline says tie; the benchmark table is where the real choice happens.

Seed-2.0-Mini's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 24.7 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BrowseComp, 60 to 53. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Seed-2.0-Mini.

Quick Verdict

Treat this as a split decision. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite makes more sense if agentic is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window; Seed-2.0-Mini is the better fit if multilingual is the priority.

Agentic

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

49.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

47
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
60
BrowseComp
53
44
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Tie

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

24.7

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

55
HumanEval
55
22
SWE-bench Verified
22
21
LiveCodeBench
21
29
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Tie

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

73.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

74
MMMU-Pro
74
72
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

65.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

60
SimpleQA
59
58
MuSR
57
74
BBH
73
69
LongBench v2
68
73
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

45.3

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

63
MMLU
62
62
GPQA
61
60
SuperGPQA
59
58
OpenBookQA
57
63
MMLU-Pro
62
1
HLE
1
55
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Mini

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

79

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

79
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Mini

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

69.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

73
MGSM
75
68
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

66.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

63
AIME 2023
62
65
AIME 2024
64
64
AIME 2025
63
59
HMMT Feb 2023
58
61
HMMT Feb 2024
60
60
HMMT Feb 2025
59
62
BRUMO 2025
61
71
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and Seed-2.0-Mini are tied on overall score, so the right pick depends on which category matters most for your use case.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 45.3 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and Seed-2.0-Mini are effectively tied for coding here, both landing at 24.7 on average.

Which is better for math, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 66.1 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 65.8 versus 64.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.2 versus 46.2. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and Seed-2.0-Mini are effectively tied for multimodal and grounded tasks here, both landing at 73.1 on average.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 79. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 69.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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