Seed-2.0-Lite vs Nova Pro

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 38. 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 41.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 80 to 37.

Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Nova Pro.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nova Pro only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

Nova Pro

33.3

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
31
63
BrowseComp
39
53
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Nova Pro

17.2

63
HumanEval
33
45
SWE-bench Verified
19
37
LiveCodeBench
14
45
SWE-bench Pro
20

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Nova Pro

41.1

80
MMMU-Pro
37
79
OfficeQA Pro
46

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Nova Pro

46.3

68
SimpleQA
39
66
MuSR
37
85
BBH
63
76
LongBench v2
51
77
MRCRv2
51

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Nova Pro

34.2

71
MMLU
41
70
GPQA
40
68
SuperGPQA
38
66
OpenBookQA
36
73
MMLU-Pro
53
7
HLE
4
66
FrontierScience
41

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Nova Pro

66

89
IFEval
66

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Nova Pro

60.4

87
MGSM
61
80
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Nova Pro

48.6

71
AIME 2023
41
73
AIME 2024
43
72
AIME 2025
42
67
HMMT Feb 2023
37
69
HMMT Feb 2024
39
68
HMMT Feb 2025
38
70
BRUMO 2025
40
81
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Nova Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 80 and 37.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Nova Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 34.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Nova Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 17.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Lite or Nova Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 48.6. 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 Nova Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 46.3. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Nova Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 33.3. 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 Nova Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 41.1. 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 Nova Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 66. 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 Nova Pro?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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