Gemini 3 Pro vs Seed-2.0-Lite

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

Gemini 3 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 63. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 94.1 against 75. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 91 to 63. Seed-2.0-Lite does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 3 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 256K for Seed-2.0-Lite.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Lite only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

71.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

68
Terminal-Bench 2.0
52
83
BrowseComp
63
66
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

54.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

91
HumanEval
63
59
SWE-bench Verified
45
49
LiveCodeBench
37
58
SWE-bench Pro
45

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

93.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

94
MMMU-Pro
80
92
OfficeQA Pro
79

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

91.2

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

95
SimpleQA
68
93
MuSR
66
90
BBH
85
90
LongBench v2
76
87
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

71.8

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

99
MMLU
71
97
GPQA
70
95
SuperGPQA
68
93
OpenBookQA
66
83
MMLU-Pro
73
20
HLE
7
86
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Gemini 3 Pro

88

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

88
IFEval
89

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

86.4

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

89
MGSM
87
85
MMLU-ProX
80

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

94.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

99
AIME 2023
71
99
AIME 2024
73
98
AIME 2025
72
95
HMMT Feb 2023
67
97
HMMT Feb 2024
69
96
HMMT Feb 2025
68
96
BRUMO 2025
70
91
MATH-500
81

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Gemini 3 Pro is ahead overall, 77 to 63. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 91 and 63.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 53.9. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3 Pro or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 41.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Gemini 3 Pro or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.1 versus 75. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 91.2 versus 73. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3 Pro or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.1 versus 55.1. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 3 Pro or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 93.1 versus 79.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 3 Pro or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 88. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 3 Pro or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 86.4 versus 82.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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