o3-pro vs Seed 1.6 Flash

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

o3-pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o3-pro's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 89 against 67.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2023, 90 to 64.

Seed 1.6 Flash gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o3-pro.

Quick Verdict

Pick o3-pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed 1.6 Flash only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

o3-pro

o3-pro

70.4

Seed 1.6 Flash

54.5

69
Terminal-Bench 2.0
52
76
BrowseComp
62
68
OSWorld-Verified
52

Coding

o3-pro

o3-pro

49.2

Seed 1.6 Flash

27.6

80
HumanEval
59
46
SWE-bench Verified
24
44
LiveCodeBench
25
55
SWE-bench Pro
31

Multimodal & Grounded

o3-pro

o3-pro

74.1

Seed 1.6 Flash

73.1

70
MMMU-Pro
74
79
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

o3-pro

o3-pro

83.6

Seed 1.6 Flash

66.8

86
SimpleQA
61
84
MuSR
59
89
BBH
75
81
LongBench v2
70
81
MRCRv2
74

Knowledge

o3-pro

o3-pro

67.1

Seed 1.6 Flash

47.3

88
MMLU
65
89
GPQA
64
87
SuperGPQA
62
85
OpenBookQA
60
75
MMLU-Pro
65
26
HLE
3
77
FrontierScience
57

Instruction Following

o3-pro

o3-pro

82

Seed 1.6 Flash

81

82
IFEval
81

Multilingual

o3-pro

o3-pro

81.1

Seed 1.6 Flash

72.8

83
MGSM
76
80
MMLU-ProX
71

Mathematics

o3-pro

o3-pro

89

Seed 1.6 Flash

67.1

90
AIME 2023
64
92
AIME 2024
66
91
AIME 2025
65
86
HMMT Feb 2023
60
88
HMMT Feb 2024
62
87
HMMT Feb 2025
61
89
BRUMO 2025
63
89
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o3-pro or Seed 1.6 Flash?

o3-pro is ahead overall, 71 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2023, where the scores are 90 and 64.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o3-pro or Seed 1.6 Flash?

o3-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.1 versus 47.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o3-pro or Seed 1.6 Flash?

o3-pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.2 versus 27.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o3-pro or Seed 1.6 Flash?

o3-pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 67.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o3-pro or Seed 1.6 Flash?

o3-pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 83.6 versus 66.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o3-pro or Seed 1.6 Flash?

o3-pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.4 versus 54.5. 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, o3-pro or Seed 1.6 Flash?

o3-pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 73.1. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o3-pro or Seed 1.6 Flash?

o3-pro has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 81. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o3-pro or Seed 1.6 Flash?

o3-pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.1 versus 72.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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