# o3-mini vs Seed 2.1 Turbo

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for o3-mini and Seed 2.1 Turbo across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/o3-mini-vs-seed-2-1-turbo
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for o3-mini and Seed 2.1 Turbo.

## Summary

- o3-mini and Seed 2.1 Turbo do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | o3-mini | Seed 2.1 Turbo |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | ByteDance |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 46.83 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.10 / $4.40 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Seed 2.1 Turbo public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Seed 2.1 Turbo | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 67.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: 45.3 (Estimated · #88/151)
- Seed 2.1 Turbo public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Seed 2.1 Turbo | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 49.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 67.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Seed 2.1 Turbo public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Seed 2.1 Turbo | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.1% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 11.0% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 62.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME | Coming soon | 89.0% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: 39.7 (Supported · #134/183)
- Seed 2.1 Turbo public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Seed 2.1 Turbo | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 86.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 67.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Seed 2.1 Turbo public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Seed 2.1 Turbo | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Seed 2.1 Turbo public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Seed 2.1 Turbo | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 87.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare o3-mini and Seed 2.1 Turbo on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

## Related Comparisons

- [o3-mini vs o3](/compare/o3-vs-o3-mini)
- [Seed 2.1 Turbo vs o3](/compare/o3-vs-seed-2-1-turbo)
- [o3-mini vs o3-pro](/compare/o3-mini-vs-o3-pro)
- [Seed 2.1 Turbo vs o3-pro](/compare/o3-pro-vs-seed-2-1-turbo)

## Explore More

- [o3-mini profile](/models/o3-mini)
- [Seed 2.1 Turbo profile](/models/seed-2-1-turbo)
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