Qwen3.5 397B vs Seed-2.0-Mini

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

Qwen3.5 397B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5 397B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 81.6 against 65.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 80 to 59. 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.

Seed-2.0-Mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5 397B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Seed-2.0-Mini gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Qwen3.5 397B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B 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

Qwen3.5 397B

56.9

Seed-2.0-Mini

46.2

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
62
BrowseComp
53
52
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

40.7

Seed-2.0-Mini

24.7

75
HumanEval
55
42
SWE-bench Verified
22
39
LiveCodeBench
21
42
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed-2.0-Mini

Qwen3.5 397B

61.4

Seed-2.0-Mini

73.1

56
MMMU-Pro
74
68
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

75.9

Seed-2.0-Mini

64.8

80
SimpleQA
59
78
MuSR
57
82
BBH
73
72
LongBench v2
68
71
MRCRv2
72

Knowledge

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

59.3

Seed-2.0-Mini

44.6

83
MMLU
62
82
GPQA
61
80
SuperGPQA
59
78
OpenBookQA
57
73
MMLU-Pro
62
10
HLE
1
71
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

82

Seed-2.0-Mini

80

82
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

78.8

Seed-2.0-Mini

71.8

82
MGSM
75
77
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

81.6

Seed-2.0-Mini

65.1

83
AIME 2023
62
85
AIME 2024
64
84
AIME 2025
63
79
HMMT Feb 2023
58
81
HMMT Feb 2024
60
80
HMMT Feb 2025
59
82
BRUMO 2025
61
81
MATH-500
70

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Qwen3.5 397B is ahead overall, 62 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 80 and 59.

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

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.3 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 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 40.7 versus 24.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 81.6 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 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.9 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 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.9 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 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Seed-2.0-Mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 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 or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 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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