Seed-2.0-Lite vs Mistral 8x7B

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 48. 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 48.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 80 to 42.

Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 8x7B 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

Mistral 8x7B

41.1

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
40
63
BrowseComp
47
53
OSWorld-Verified
38

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Mistral 8x7B

25.8

63
HumanEval
55
45
SWE-bench Verified
28
37
LiveCodeBench
23
45
SWE-bench Pro
28

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Mistral 8x7B

48.3

80
MMMU-Pro
42
79
OfficeQA Pro
56

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Mistral 8x7B

60.3

68
SimpleQA
63
66
MuSR
61
85
BBH
76
76
LongBench v2
57
77
MRCRv2
53

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Mistral 8x7B

48.4

71
MMLU
65
70
GPQA
64
68
SuperGPQA
62
66
OpenBookQA
60
73
MMLU-Pro
65
7
HLE
8
66
FrontierScience
56

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Mistral 8x7B

78

89
IFEval
78

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Mistral 8x7B

72.1

87
MGSM
74
80
MMLU-ProX
71

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Mistral 8x7B

68.1

71
AIME 2023
65
73
AIME 2024
67
72
AIME 2025
66
67
HMMT Feb 2023
61
69
HMMT Feb 2024
63
68
HMMT Feb 2025
62
70
BRUMO 2025
64
81
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 80 and 42.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 48.4. Inside this category, FrontierScience is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 25.8. 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 Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 68.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 60.3. 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 Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 41.1. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 48.3. 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 Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 78. 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 Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 72.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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