Seed-2.0-Lite vs Mistral Large 3

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

Seed-2.0-Lite has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 63 versus 61. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Seed-2.0-Lite's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 89 against 83. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 77 to 67. Mistral Large 3 does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Mistral Large 3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.25 input / $2.00 output per 1M tokens for Seed-2.0-Lite. That is roughly 3.0x on output cost alone. Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Mistral Large 3.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Large 3 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.

Agentic

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

Mistral Large 3

52.5

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
52
63
BrowseComp
58
53
OSWorld-Verified
49

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Mistral Large 3

41

63
HumanEval
68
45
SWE-bench Verified
45
37
LiveCodeBench
39
45
SWE-bench Pro
42

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Mistral Large 3

75.5

80
MMMU-Pro
75
79
OfficeQA Pro
76

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Mistral Large 3

70.6

68
SimpleQA
73
66
MuSR
71
85
BBH
81
76
LongBench v2
67
77
MRCRv2
67

Knowledge

Mistral Large 3

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Mistral Large 3

57.1

71
MMLU
76
70
GPQA
75
68
SuperGPQA
73
66
OpenBookQA
71
73
MMLU-Pro
74
7
HLE
12
66
FrontierScience
67

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Mistral Large 3

83

89
IFEval
83

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Mistral Large 3

78.8

87
MGSM
82
80
MMLU-ProX
77

Mathematics

Mistral Large 3

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Mistral Large 3

77.3

71
AIME 2023
76
73
AIME 2024
78
72
AIME 2025
77
67
HMMT Feb 2023
72
69
HMMT Feb 2024
74
68
HMMT Feb 2025
73
70
BRUMO 2025
75
81
MATH-500
80

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mistral Large 3?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 77 and 67.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.1 versus 53.9. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mistral Large 3?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 41. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 77.3 versus 75. 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 Mistral Large 3?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 70.6. 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 Mistral Large 3?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 52.5. 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 Large 3?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 75.5. 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 Large 3?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 83. 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 Large 3?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 78.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

Weekly LLM Benchmark Digest

Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.