Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 43.8 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 63 to 43. 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.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Seed-2.0-Mini is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 256K for Seed-2.0-Mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

62.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
69
BrowseComp
53
58
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

43.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

66
HumanEval
55
42
SWE-bench Verified
22
41
LiveCodeBench
21
47
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

66.9

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

61
MMMU-Pro
74
74
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

77.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

71
SimpleQA
59
69
MuSR
57
85
BBH
73
81
LongBench v2
68
85
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

57

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

74
MMLU
62
73
GPQA
61
71
SuperGPQA
59
69
OpenBookQA
57
73
MMLU-Pro
62
15
HLE
1
67
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

84

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

84
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

79.7

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

81
MGSM
75
79
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

78

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

74
AIME 2023
62
76
AIME 2024
64
75
AIME 2025
63
70
HMMT Feb 2023
58
72
HMMT Feb 2024
60
71
HMMT Feb 2025
59
73
BRUMO 2025
61
84
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is ahead overall, 64 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 63 and 43.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 44.6. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.8 versus 24.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 65.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 64.8. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 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, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 66.9. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 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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