GLM-5 vs Seed-2.0-Lite

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

GLM-5 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 65 versus 63. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

GLM-5's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 84.8 against 75. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 80 to 63. 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 200K for GLM-5.

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 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

GLM-5

GLM-5

62.3

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
52
67
BrowseComp
63
58
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

GLM-5

41.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

80
HumanEval
63
46
SWE-bench Verified
45
35
LiveCodeBench
37
46
SWE-bench Pro
45

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

GLM-5

69.2

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

66
MMMU-Pro
80
73
OfficeQA Pro
79

Reasoning

GLM-5

GLM-5

79.4

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

84
SimpleQA
68
82
MuSR
66
83
BBH
85
77
LongBench v2
76
73
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

GLM-5

GLM-5

62.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

88
MMLU
71
86
GPQA
70
84
SuperGPQA
68
82
OpenBookQA
66
74
MMLU-Pro
73
13
HLE
7
74
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

GLM-5

85

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

85
IFEval
89

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

GLM-5

82.1

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

84
MGSM
87
81
MMLU-ProX
80

Mathematics

GLM-5

GLM-5

84.8

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

88
AIME 2023
71
90
AIME 2024
73
89
AIME 2025
72
84
HMMT Feb 2023
67
86
HMMT Feb 2024
69
85
HMMT Feb 2025
68
87
BRUMO 2025
70
82
MATH-500
81

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GLM-5 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

GLM-5 is ahead overall, 65 to 63. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 80 and 63.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GLM-5 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

GLM-5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.1 versus 53.9. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GLM-5 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 41.1. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GLM-5 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

GLM-5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 75. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GLM-5 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

GLM-5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 79.4 versus 73. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GLM-5 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

GLM-5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.3 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, GLM-5 or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 69.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GLM-5 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, GLM-5 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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