Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 75 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 62.3 against 24.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 60 to 21. Seed-2.0-Mini does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Seed-2.0-Mini is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed-2.0-Mini only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

74.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
78
BrowseComp
53
70
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

62.3

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

83
HumanEval
55
60
SWE-bench Verified
22
60
LiveCodeBench
21
65
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

70.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

64
MMMU-Pro
74
79
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

84.2

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

87
SimpleQA
59
85
MuSR
57
91
BBH
73
80
LongBench v2
68
82
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

70.1

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

91
MMLU
62
89
GPQA
61
87
SuperGPQA
59
85
OpenBookQA
57
81
MMLU-Pro
62
29
HLE
1
81
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

89

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

89
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

87.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

91
MGSM
75
86
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

92.5

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

93
AIME 2023
62
95
AIME 2024
64
94
AIME 2025
63
89
HMMT Feb 2023
58
91
HMMT Feb 2024
60
90
HMMT Feb 2025
59
92
BRUMO 2025
61
93
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 75 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 60 and 21.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.1 versus 44.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 24.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.5 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 84.2 versus 64.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.8 versus 46.2. 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, Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 70.8. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.8 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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