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Claude Opus 4.8vsDola Seed 2.0 Lite

Claude Opus 4.8 leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Dola Seed 2.0 Lite is 13.3x cheaper per token. Claude Opus 4.8 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
4 – 0
Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Cheaper per token
Dola Seed 2.0 Lite
13.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 4.8
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · ByteDance Seed
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · released 2026-05-28
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$5 ↗
Output /1M
$25 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
47 · 16 core
Dola Seed 2.0 Lite
ByteDance Seed · released 2026-02-14
textvisionaudiovideo
Context
256K
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$0.25 ↗
Output /1M
$2 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.05
Scores
15 · 7 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dola Seed 2.0 LiteΔEdge
Reported by both · 4
GPQA Diamond93.6% ↗85.1% ↗+8.5 ptClaude Opus 4.8
BrowseComp84.3% ↗72.1% ↗+12.2 ptClaude Opus 4.8
SimpleQA Verified53% ↗epoch run24% ↗+29 ptClaude Opus 4.8
SWE-Bench Pro69.2% ↗46% ↗+23.2 ptClaude Opus 4.8
Only Claude Opus 4.8 reports · 36
SWE-bench Verified88.6% ↗not reported——
AIME 2026100% ↗matharena ⚠not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)49.8% ↗not reported——
LMArena Elo1452.7 ↗not reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)48.9% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)34% ↗epoch runnot reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)59% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)28.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)56.1% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)80% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)42.5% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)47.1% ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)57.9% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)50.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)81.8% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)66% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)72% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)79.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)94.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)89.2% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.0664 ↗not reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1286.4 ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1555.5 ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)36% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OSWorld-Verified83.4% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)98.3% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)54.8% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)64.8% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Multilingual84.4% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Multimodal38.4% ↗not reported——
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)39.7% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 2.174.6% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)23.2% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)76.2% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)5787.43 ↗not reported——
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)82.9% ↗not reported——
Only Dola Seed 2.0 Lite reports · 11
MMLU-Pronot reported87.7% ↗——
AIME 2025not reported93% ↗——
ARC-AGI-2not reported14.8% ↗——
HLE (no tool, text only)not reported28.2% ↗——
LiveCodeBench (v6)not reported81.7% ↗——
MMMUnot reported83.7% ↗——
SWE Bench Verifiednot reported73.5% ↗——
SWE Multilingualnot reported64.4% ↗——
Terminal Bench 2.0 (Terminus2)not reported45% ↗——
WideSearchnot reported74.5% ↗——
τ2-Bench (retail)not reported90.9% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.8 minus Dola Seed 2.0 Lite in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Opus 4.8Dola Seed 2.0 LiteEdge
Context window1M tokens256K tokensClaude Opus 4.8
Max output128K tokens128K tokensTie
Input price / 1M$5 ↗$0.25 ↗Dola Seed 2.0 Lite
Output price / 1M$25 ↗$2 ↗Dola Seed 2.0 Lite
Cached input / 1M$0.5 ↗$0.05 ↗Dola Seed 2.0 Lite
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$30$2.25Dola Seed 2.0 Lite
Modalitiestext · visiontext · vision · audio · videoDola Seed 2.0 Lite
Released2026-05-282026-02-14—
Cited benchmark scores4715—
Reliability

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