Seed 1.6 Flash vs Nemotron Ultra 253B

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

Seed 1.6 Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 56 to 48. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Seed 1.6 Flash's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 73.1 against 44.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 74 to 37. Nemotron Ultra 253B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Seed 1.6 Flash gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for Nemotron Ultra 253B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed 1.6 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron Ultra 253B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

54.5

Nemotron Ultra 253B

46.7

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
46
62
BrowseComp
50
52
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Nemotron Ultra 253B

Seed 1.6 Flash

27.6

Nemotron Ultra 253B

33.7

59
HumanEval
41
24
SWE-bench Verified
31
25
LiveCodeBench
30
31
SWE-bench Pro
38

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

73.1

Nemotron Ultra 253B

44.7

74
MMMU-Pro
37
72
OfficeQA Pro
54

Reasoning

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

66.8

Nemotron Ultra 253B

53.3

61
SimpleQA
47
59
MuSR
45
75
BBH
77
70
LongBench v2
55
74
MRCRv2
56

Knowledge

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

47.3

Nemotron Ultra 253B

42.4

65
MMLU
49
64
GPQA
48
62
SuperGPQA
46
60
OpenBookQA
44
65
MMLU-Pro
63
3
HLE
11
57
FrontierScience
49

Instruction Following

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

81

Nemotron Ultra 253B

78

81
IFEval
78

Multilingual

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

72.8

Nemotron Ultra 253B

70.1

76
MGSM
74
71
MMLU-ProX
68

Mathematics

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

67.1

Nemotron Ultra 253B

59.7

64
AIME 2023
49
66
AIME 2024
51
65
AIME 2025
50
60
HMMT Feb 2023
45
62
HMMT Feb 2024
47
61
HMMT Feb 2025
46
63
BRUMO 2025
48
72
MATH-500
74

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Seed 1.6 Flash is ahead overall, 56 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 74 and 37.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 47.3 versus 42.4. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Nemotron Ultra 253B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33.7 versus 27.6. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.1 versus 59.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.8 versus 53.3. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.5 versus 46.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 44.7. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Nemotron Ultra 253B?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.8 versus 70.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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