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Claude Sonnet 5.5vsDola Seed 2.0 Mini

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Dola Seed 2.0 Mini is 24x cheaper per token. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Cheaper per token
Dola Seed 2.0 Mini
24x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 5.5
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · ByteDance Seed
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic · released 2026-09-28
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$2 ↗
Output /1M
$10 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.2
Scores
29 · 10 core
Dola Seed 2.0 Mini
ByteDance Seed · released 2026-02-14
textvisionaudiovideo
Context
256K
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$0.1 ↗
Output /1M
$0.4 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.02
Scores
15 · 8 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Dola Seed 2.0 MiniΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
GPQA Diamond95.6% ↗epoch run79% ↗+16.6 ptClaude Sonnet 5.5
SimpleQA Verified46.5% ↗epoch run18.9% ↗+27.6 ptClaude Sonnet 5.5
Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 reports · 27
LMArena Elo1471 ↗not reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)75.5% ↗not reported——
Chartography (no tools)61.6% ↗not reported——
CursorBench 4.055.5% ↗not reported——
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)46.2% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)80.5% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)88.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)61.9% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)75% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)64.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)56.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)91.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)78.6% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)70.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)83.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)96.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)91.6% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.1252 ↗not reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1268.3 ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1786.3 ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)65% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OSWorld 2.1 (partial)80.1% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)51.8% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)75.9% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.070.6% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)64.1% ↗not reported——
Only Dola Seed 2.0 Mini reports · 13
MMLU-Pronot reported83.6% ↗——
AIME 2025not reported87% ↗——
AIME 2026not reported86.7% ↗——
ARC-AGI-2not reported2.3% ↗——
HLE (no tool, text only)not reported13.3% ↗——
IMOAnswerBench (no tool)not reported71.6% ↗——
LiveCodeBench (v6)not reported64.1% ↗——
LongBench v2 (128K)not reported52.3% ↗——
MathVistanot reported85.5% ↗——
MMMUnot reported79.7% ↗——
MMMU-Pronot reported71.4% ↗——
MultiChallengenot reported61.1% ↗——
SuperGPQAnot reported61.6% ↗——
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 Sonnet 5.5 minus Dola Seed 2.0 Mini 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 Sonnet 5.5Dola Seed 2.0 MiniEdge
Context window1M tokens256K tokensClaude Sonnet 5.5
Max output128K tokens128K tokensTie
Input price / 1M$2 ↗$0.1 ↗Dola Seed 2.0 Mini
Output price / 1M$10 ↗$0.4 ↗Dola Seed 2.0 Mini
Cached input / 1M$0.2 ↗$0.02 ↗Dola Seed 2.0 Mini
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$12$0.5Dola Seed 2.0 Mini
Modalitiestext · visiontext · vision · audio · videoDola Seed 2.0 Mini
Released2026-09-282026-02-14—
Cited benchmark scores2915—
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