Seed-2.0-Lite vs Qwen2.5-VL-32B

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 reasoning, where it averages 73 against 43.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OfficeQA Pro, 79 to 45.

Seed-2.0-Lite gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for Qwen2.5-VL-32B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen2.5-VL-32B 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

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

33.5

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
30
63
BrowseComp
41
53
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

41.4

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

14.3

63
HumanEval
35
45
SWE-bench Verified
17
37
LiveCodeBench
11
45
SWE-bench Pro
17

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

79.6

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

52.2

80
MMMU-Pro
58
79
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

73

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

43.2

68
SimpleQA
41
66
MuSR
39
85
BBH
61
76
LongBench v2
42
77
MRCRv2
43

Knowledge

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

53.9

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

34.7

71
MMLU
43
70
GPQA
42
68
SuperGPQA
40
66
OpenBookQA
38
73
MMLU-Pro
53
7
HLE
2
66
FrontierScience
43

Instruction Following

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

89

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

67

89
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

82.5

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

60.4

87
MGSM
63
80
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite

75

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

49.7

71
AIME 2023
43
73
AIME 2024
45
72
AIME 2025
44
67
HMMT Feb 2023
39
69
HMMT Feb 2024
41
68
HMMT Feb 2025
40
70
BRUMO 2025
42
81
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed-2.0-Lite or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Seed-2.0-Lite is ahead overall, 63 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OfficeQA Pro, where the scores are 79 and 45.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 34.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed-2.0-Lite or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.4 versus 14.3. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed-2.0-Lite or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 49.7. 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 Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73 versus 43.2. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed-2.0-Lite or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 33.5. 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, Seed-2.0-Lite or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 52.2. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed-2.0-Lite or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 67. 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 Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

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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