Seed 1.6 vs Nemotron-4 15B

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

Seed 1.6 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 65 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed 1.6's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 79.6 against 49.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 80 to 46.

Seed 1.6 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron-4 15B 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. Seed 1.6 gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for Nemotron-4 15B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed 1.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron-4 15B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

62.3

Nemotron-4 15B

41.3

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
37
67
BrowseComp
47
58
OSWorld-Verified
42

Coding

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

42.4

Nemotron-4 15B

26.5

64
HumanEval
46
46
SWE-bench Verified
31
38
LiveCodeBench
22
46
SWE-bench Pro
30

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

79.6

Nemotron-4 15B

49.6

80
MMMU-Pro
46
79
OfficeQA Pro
54

Reasoning

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

74.5

Nemotron-4 15B

53.4

69
SimpleQA
52
69
MuSR
50
86
BBH
73
77
LongBench v2
52
78
MRCRv2
51

Knowledge

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

56.4

Nemotron-4 15B

42.6

73
MMLU
54
72
GPQA
53
70
SuperGPQA
51
68
OpenBookQA
49
75
MMLU-Pro
63
11
HLE
5
68
FrontierScience
50

Instruction Following

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

87

Nemotron-4 15B

79

87
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

83.4

Nemotron-4 15B

72.4

88
MGSM
75
81
MMLU-ProX
71

Mathematics

Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6

75.9

Nemotron-4 15B

61.1

72
AIME 2023
54
74
AIME 2024
56
73
AIME 2025
55
68
HMMT Feb 2023
50
70
HMMT Feb 2024
52
69
HMMT Feb 2025
51
71
BRUMO 2025
53
82
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed 1.6 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Seed 1.6 is ahead overall, 65 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 80 and 46.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed 1.6 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.4 versus 42.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed 1.6 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 42.4 versus 26.5. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed 1.6 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.9 versus 61.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed 1.6 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 74.5 versus 53.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed 1.6 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 41.3. 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, Seed 1.6 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 49.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed 1.6 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87 versus 79. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed 1.6 or Nemotron-4 15B?

Seed 1.6 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 83.4 versus 72.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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