Seed-2.0-Lite vs Llama 3 70B

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

Seed-2.0-Lite is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 45. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed-2.0-Lite's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 79.6 against 52.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 45 to 9.

Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Llama 3 70B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 3 70B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

Llama 3 70B

41.2

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
37
63
BrowseComp
48
53
OSWorld-Verified
41

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Llama 3 70B

15.8

63
HumanEval
50
45
SWE-bench Verified
9
37
LiveCodeBench
19
45
SWE-bench Pro
14

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Llama 3 70B

52.3

80
MMMU-Pro
50
79
OfficeQA Pro
55

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Llama 3 70B

59.6

68
SimpleQA
56
66
MuSR
54
85
BBH
74
76
LongBench v2
61
77
MRCRv2
61

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Llama 3 70B

42.2

71
MMLU
58
70
GPQA
58
68
SuperGPQA
56
66
OpenBookQA
54
73
MMLU-Pro
55
7
HLE
2
66
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Llama 3 70B

77

89
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Llama 3 70B

67.5

87
MGSM
72
80
MMLU-ProX
65

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Llama 3 70B

63.3

71
AIME 2023
58
73
AIME 2024
60
72
AIME 2025
59
67
HMMT Feb 2023
54
69
HMMT Feb 2024
56
68
HMMT Feb 2025
55
70
BRUMO 2025
57
81
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Llama 3 70B?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 45 and 9.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Llama 3 70B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 42.2. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Llama 3 70B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 15.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Lite or Llama 3 70B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 63.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Lite or Llama 3 70B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 59.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Llama 3 70B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 41.2. 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-2.0-Lite or Llama 3 70B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 52.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed-2.0-Lite or Llama 3 70B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Llama 3 70B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 67.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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