Mistral Large 2 vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

Mistral Large 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 59 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mistral Large 2's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 41.8 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 49 to 22. 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.

Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Mistral Large 2.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral Large 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

52.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

51
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
57
BrowseComp
53
50
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

41.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

60
HumanEval
55
49
SWE-bench Verified
22
38
LiveCodeBench
21
44
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Mistral Large 2

61

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

56
MMMU-Pro
74
67
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

67.5

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

66
SimpleQA
59
64
MuSR
57
82
BBH
73
66
LongBench v2
68
68
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

54.6

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

68
MMLU
62
68
GPQA
61
66
SuperGPQA
59
64
OpenBookQA
57
74
MMLU-Pro
62
12
HLE
1
65
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

83

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

83
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

79.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

81
MGSM
75
78
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

73.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

68
AIME 2023
62
70
AIME 2024
64
69
AIME 2025
63
64
HMMT Feb 2023
58
66
HMMT Feb 2024
60
65
HMMT Feb 2025
59
67
BRUMO 2025
61
82
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mistral Large 2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Mistral Large 2 is ahead overall, 59 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 49 and 22.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral Large 2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.6 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Large 2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.8 versus 24.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Mistral Large 2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 73.8 versus 65.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Mistral Large 2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 64.8. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Mistral Large 2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.2 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, Mistral Large 2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 61. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mistral Large 2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Mistral Large 2 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.1 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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