Qwen2.5-72B vs Seed-2.0-Lite

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

Qwen2.5-72B finishes one point ahead overall, 64 to 63. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Qwen2.5-72B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 83.5 against 75. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 64 to 80. Seed-2.0-Lite does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Qwen2.5-72B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-72B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Lite only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

57.7

Seed-2.0-Lite

55.1

56
Terminal-Bench 2.0
52
64
BrowseComp
63
55
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

43.8

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

75
HumanEval
63
46
SWE-bench Verified
45
40
LiveCodeBench
37
47
SWE-bench Pro
45

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Qwen2.5-72B

66.7

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

64
MMMU-Pro
80
70
OfficeQA Pro
79

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

75.8

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

80
SimpleQA
68
78
MuSR
66
81
BBH
85
72
LongBench v2
76
71
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

59.8

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

83
MMLU
71
82
GPQA
70
80
SuperGPQA
68
78
OpenBookQA
66
75
MMLU-Pro
73
11
HLE
7
70
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Qwen2.5-72B

85

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

85
IFEval
89

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Qwen2.5-72B

80.8

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

84
MGSM
87
79
MMLU-ProX
80

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

83.5

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

84
AIME 2023
71
86
AIME 2024
73
85
AIME 2025
72
80
HMMT Feb 2023
67
82
HMMT Feb 2024
69
81
HMMT Feb 2025
68
83
BRUMO 2025
70
84
MATH-500
81

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen2.5-72B or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Qwen2.5-72B is ahead overall, 64 to 63. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 64 and 80.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen2.5-72B or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.8 versus 53.9. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5-72B or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.8 versus 41.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen2.5-72B or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.5 versus 75. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen2.5-72B or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.8 versus 73. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen2.5-72B or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.7 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, Qwen2.5-72B or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 66.7. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen2.5-72B or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 85. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Qwen2.5-72B or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 versus 80.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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