Seed-2.0-Lite vs Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

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 35. 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 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 80 to 35.

Seed-2.0-Lite is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.25 input / $2.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 64K for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

31.8

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
35
63
BrowseComp
32
53
OSWorld-Verified
28

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

40

63
HumanEval
54.8
45
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
37
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
45
SWE-bench Pro
40

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

35.5

80
MMMU-Pro
35
79
OfficeQA Pro
36

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

38.6

68
SimpleQA
Coming soon
66
MuSR
Coming soon
85
BBH
Coming soon
76
LongBench v2
39
77
MRCRv2
38

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

53

71
MMLU
71.4
70
GPQA
Coming soon
68
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
66
OpenBookQA
Coming soon
73
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
7
HLE
Coming soon
66
FrontierScience
53

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

89
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

42

87
MGSM
Coming soon
80
MMLU-ProX
42

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

71
AIME 2023
Coming soon
73
AIME 2024
Coming soon
72
AIME 2025
Coming soon
67
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
69
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
68
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
70
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
81
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 80 and 35.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 53. Inside this category, FrontierScience is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 40. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 38.6. 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 Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 31.8. 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 Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 35.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 42. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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