Benchmark Almanac

DeepConsult

Seed2.0 Pro 61.1% leads since Feb 2026 Fading

Deep research agents answer business and consulting queries. A model judge compares each report pairwise with an OpenAI Deep Research baseline answer.

The release date is inferred from the response file dated 2025-05-15 in the repo.

Made by You.com Released May 2025 Deep research All tasks public Last in a launch post Feb 2026 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Mar 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
2
Models scored in lab cards
2
Launch posts list it, from 1 lab
2
System cards report it, from 1 lab

Seed2.0 Pro leads with 61.1%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Seed2.0 Pro 61.1%
  2. 2 Seed1.8 41%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Seed2.0 Pro 61.1% Feb 2026 Model card
2 Seed1.8 41% Dec 2025 Model card

2 models have held number one since its release in May 2025

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

ByteDance Seed
Lab claims Not tested since Mar 2026
Seed2.0 Pro 61.1%

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed2.0 Pro Seed1.8 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed2.0 Pro Seed1.8

Labs headline it less often now, last in Feb 2026

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

ByteDance Seed
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
14 Feb 2026 Seed2.0 Pro 61.1 DeepConsult
18 Dec 2025 Seed1.8 41 DeepConsult

2 system cards report it, from 1 lab

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
21 Mar 2026 Seed1.8 model card 41 DeepConsult (Table 4) Capabilities
14 Feb 2026 Seed2.0 Pro model card 61.1 DeepConsult (Table 11) Capabilities

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