# Seed 2.0 Pro vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)

> Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dola-seed-2-0-pro-vs-gemini-1-5-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Seed 2.0 Pro leads 39.3 to 22.1.

## Snapshot

| | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ByteDance Seed | Google |
| Noometry Index | 43.2 | 33.2 |
| Rank | 96 | 246 |
| Context | 256K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $3 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.5 (#86)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1472 | 1261 |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Seed 2.0 Pro: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |

## Reasoning

- Seed 2.0 Pro: 24.1 (#165)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1453 | 1257 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 28.4% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 57.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 53.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |

## Math

- Seed 2.0 Pro: 39.3 (#108)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1439 | 1269 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |

## Knowledge

- Seed 2.0 Pro: 40.2 (#122)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1440 | 1233 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.7% |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
| MMLU | — | 77.9% |

## Multimodal

- Seed 2.0 Pro: 41.5 (#35)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1274 | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |

## Multilingual

- Seed 2.0 Pro: 54.5 (#39)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1441 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1489 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1471 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1442 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1408 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1411 | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | 1449 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1460 | 1243 |

## Instruction Following

- Seed 2.0 Pro: 74.5 (#91)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1414 | 1258 |
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |

## Long Context

- Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.6 (#90)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1428 | 1284 |

## Writing & Preference

- Seed 2.0 Pro: 62.9 (#69)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)

| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1448 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1406 | 1285 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1441 | 1253 |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Seed 2.0 Pro better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?

Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Seed 2.0 Pro or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?

Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Seed 2.0 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Seed 2.0 Pro has 20 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.