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Model comparison

Seed 2.0 Pro vs Qwen3 Max

Seed 2.0 Pro and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.5 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Seed 2.0 Pro ByteDance Seed

42.5

Rank #97 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #82 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 Max in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 Max leads 48.1 to 39.6.
  • Seed 2.0 Pro is cheaper at $0.50 / $3 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $6 for Qwen3 Max.
  • Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Seed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
ProviderByteDance SeedAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.543.5
Released2026-02-142025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window256K262K
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$3$6
Results tracked2033

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 42.9 (#84), Qwen3 Max: 42.4 (#93)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding14721456
ALE-Bench—370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Seed 2.0 Pro: —, Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 23.1 (#167), Qwen3 Max: 22.0 (#186)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
NYT Connections (extended)28.4%30.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14531448
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
Chess Puzzles—4%
Thematic Generalization57.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LMCA—28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.41

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#110), Qwen3 Max: 37.6 (#94)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Math14401447
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
MATH Level 5—97.1%

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 39.6 (#119), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#72)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Expert14401457
GPQA Diamond—72.6%
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Seed 2.0 Pro: 40.8 (#34), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Vision1275—

Multilingual Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 54.8 (#37), Qwen3 Max: 53.9 (#58)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English14421429
LMArena Chinese14901479
LMArena French14701450
LMArena German14431463
LMArena Japanese14081399
LMArena Korean14121397
LMArena Russian14501428
LMArena Spanish14601463

Instruction Following Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 74.7 (#86), Qwen3 Max: 75.0 (#81)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14141420

Long Context Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.6 (#85), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#129)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query14281439
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 63.0 (#66), Qwen3 Max: 62.6 (#72)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Text14481439
LMArena Creative Writing14061401
LMArena Multi-Turn14411446

Frequently asked questions

Is Seed 2.0 Pro better than Qwen3 Max?

Seed 2.0 Pro and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.5 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Seed 2.0 Pro or Qwen3 Max?

Seed 2.0 Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Max lists at $1.20 and $6.

Is Seed 2.0 Pro or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.9 vs 42.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Seed 2.0 Pro and Qwen3 Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Seed 2.0 Pro has 20 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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