Seed-2.0-Mini vs Mistral 8x7B

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

Seed-2.0-Mini is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 53 to 48. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed-2.0-Mini's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 73.1 against 48.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 74 to 42. Mistral 8x7B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 8x7B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.

Agentic

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

Mistral 8x7B

41.1

43
Terminal-Bench 2.0
40
53
BrowseComp
47
45
OSWorld-Verified
38

Coding

Mistral 8x7B

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

Mistral 8x7B

25.8

55
HumanEval
55
22
SWE-bench Verified
28
21
LiveCodeBench
23
29
SWE-bench Pro
28

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

Mistral 8x7B

48.3

74
MMMU-Pro
42
72
OfficeQA Pro
56

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

Mistral 8x7B

60.3

59
SimpleQA
63
57
MuSR
61
73
BBH
76
68
LongBench v2
57
72
MRCRv2
53

Knowledge

Mistral 8x7B

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

Mistral 8x7B

48.4

62
MMLU
65
61
GPQA
64
59
SuperGPQA
62
57
OpenBookQA
60
62
MMLU-Pro
65
1
HLE
8
54
FrontierScience
56

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

Mistral 8x7B

78

80
IFEval
78

Multilingual

Mistral 8x7B

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

Mistral 8x7B

72.1

75
MGSM
74
70
MMLU-ProX
71

Mathematics

Mistral 8x7B

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

Mistral 8x7B

68.1

62
AIME 2023
65
64
AIME 2024
67
63
AIME 2025
66
58
HMMT Feb 2023
61
60
HMMT Feb 2024
63
59
HMMT Feb 2025
62
61
BRUMO 2025
64
70
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Seed-2.0-Mini is ahead overall, 53 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 74 and 42.

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

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 44.6. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 25.8 versus 24.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Mini or Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 68.1 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 64.8 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-Mini or Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 46.2 versus 41.1. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 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-Mini or Mistral 8x7B?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 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-Mini or Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.1 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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