Seed 1.6 vs GPT-4o

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

Seed 1.6 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 65 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed 1.6's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 62.3 against 51.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 46 to 20.

GPT-4o is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.50 input / $10.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.25 input / $2.00 output per 1M tokens for Seed 1.6. That is roughly 5.0x on output cost alone. Seed 1.6 is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-4o is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Seed 1.6 gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for GPT-4o.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed 1.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4o only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

62.3

GPT-4o

51.2

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
49
67
BrowseComp
59
58
OSWorld-Verified
48

Coding

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

42.4

GPT-4o

32.2

64
HumanEval
58
46
SWE-bench Verified
20
38
LiveCodeBench
38
46
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

79.6

GPT-4o

72.2

80
MMMU-Pro
74
79
OfficeQA Pro
70

Reasoning

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

74.5

GPT-4o

64.6

69
SimpleQA
64
69
MuSR
62
86
BBH
82
77
LongBench v2
62
78
MRCRv2
63

Knowledge

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

56.4

GPT-4o

47.4

73
MMLU
66
72
GPQA
66
70
SuperGPQA
64
68
OpenBookQA
62
75
MMLU-Pro
64
11
HLE
1
68
FrontierScience
58

Instruction Following

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

87

GPT-4o

82

87
IFEval
82

Multilingual

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

83.4

GPT-4o

75.5

88
MGSM
82
81
MMLU-ProX
72

Mathematics

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

75.9

GPT-4o

71.8

72
AIME 2023
66
74
AIME 2024
68
73
AIME 2025
67
68
HMMT Feb 2023
62
70
HMMT Feb 2024
64
69
HMMT Feb 2025
63
71
BRUMO 2025
65
82
MATH-500
80

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed 1.6 or GPT-4o?

Seed 1.6 is ahead overall, 65 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 46 and 20.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed 1.6 or GPT-4o?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.4 versus 47.4. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed 1.6 or GPT-4o?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 42.4 versus 32.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed 1.6 or GPT-4o?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.9 versus 71.8. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed 1.6 or GPT-4o?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 74.5 versus 64.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed 1.6 or GPT-4o?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 51.2. 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, Seed 1.6 or GPT-4o?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 72.2. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed 1.6 or GPT-4o?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87 versus 82. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed 1.6 or GPT-4o?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 83.4 versus 75.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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