o4-mini (high) vs Seed-2.0-Lite

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

o4-mini (high) and Seed-2.0-Lite finish on the same overall score, so this is less about a single winner and more about where the edge shows up. The headline says tie; the benchmark table is where the real choice happens.

Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o4-mini (high).

Quick Verdict

Treat this as a split decision. o4-mini (high) makes more sense if mathematics is the priority; Seed-2.0-Lite is the better fit if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

58.5

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
52
64
BrowseComp
63
55
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

o4-mini (high)

38.7

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

74
HumanEval
63
45
SWE-bench Verified
45
34
LiveCodeBench
37
42
SWE-bench Pro
45

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

o4-mini (high)

68.3

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

66
MMMU-Pro
80
71
OfficeQA Pro
79

Reasoning

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

77.4

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

80
SimpleQA
68
78
MuSR
66
83
BBH
85
75
LongBench v2
76
74
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

61.2

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

82
MMLU
71
82
GPQA
70
80
SuperGPQA
68
78
OpenBookQA
66
76
MMLU-Pro
73
13
HLE
7
73
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

o4-mini (high)

83

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

83
IFEval
89

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

o4-mini (high)

81.7

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

83
MGSM
87
81
MMLU-ProX
80

Mathematics

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

82.9

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

83
AIME 2023
71
85
AIME 2024
73
84
AIME 2025
72
79
HMMT Feb 2023
67
81
HMMT Feb 2024
69
80
HMMT Feb 2025
68
82
BRUMO 2025
70
84
MATH-500
81

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o4-mini (high) or Seed-2.0-Lite?

o4-mini (high) and Seed-2.0-Lite are tied on overall score, so the right pick depends on which category matters most for your use case.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o4-mini (high) or Seed-2.0-Lite?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.2 versus 53.9. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o4-mini (high) or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 38.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o4-mini (high) or Seed-2.0-Lite?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.9 versus 75. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o4-mini (high) or Seed-2.0-Lite?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 73. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o4-mini (high) or Seed-2.0-Lite?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 55.1. 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, o4-mini (high) or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 68.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o4-mini (high) or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o4-mini (high) or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 81.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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