GPT-4o vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

GPT-4o has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 56 versus 53. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

GPT-4o's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 32.2 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 38 to 21. Seed-2.0-Mini does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4o is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.50 input / $10.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens for Seed-2.0-Mini. That is roughly 25.0x on output cost alone. Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for GPT-4o.

Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-4o if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

GPT-4o

GPT-4o

51.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

49
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
59
BrowseComp
53
48
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

GPT-4o

GPT-4o

32.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

58
HumanEval
55
20
SWE-bench Verified
22
38
LiveCodeBench
21
29
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

GPT-4o

72.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

74
MMMU-Pro
74
70
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Mini

GPT-4o

64.6

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

64
SimpleQA
59
62
MuSR
57
82
BBH
73
62
LongBench v2
68
63
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

GPT-4o

GPT-4o

47.4

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

66
MMLU
62
66
GPQA
61
64
SuperGPQA
59
62
OpenBookQA
57
64
MMLU-Pro
62
1
HLE
1
58
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

GPT-4o

GPT-4o

82

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

82
IFEval
80

Multilingual

GPT-4o

GPT-4o

75.5

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

82
MGSM
75
72
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

GPT-4o

GPT-4o

71.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

66
AIME 2023
62
68
AIME 2024
64
67
AIME 2025
63
62
HMMT Feb 2023
58
64
HMMT Feb 2024
60
63
HMMT Feb 2025
59
65
BRUMO 2025
61
80
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GPT-4o or Seed-2.0-Mini?

GPT-4o is ahead overall, 56 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 38 and 21.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-4o or Seed-2.0-Mini?

GPT-4o has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 47.4 versus 44.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GPT-4o or Seed-2.0-Mini?

GPT-4o has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 32.2 versus 24.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GPT-4o or Seed-2.0-Mini?

GPT-4o has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 65.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GPT-4o or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 64.8 versus 64.6. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GPT-4o or Seed-2.0-Mini?

GPT-4o has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.2 versus 46.2. 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, GPT-4o or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 72.2. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GPT-4o or Seed-2.0-Mini?

GPT-4o has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GPT-4o or Seed-2.0-Mini?

GPT-4o has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.5 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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