Model comparison
Codestral vs Seed 2.0 Pro
Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Codestral costs 2.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Seed 2.0 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Mistral AI
ByteDance SeedSummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Seed 2.0 Pro leads 43.5 to 27.3.
- Codestral is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Seed 2.0 Pro.
Side by side
| Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | ByteDance Seed |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 43.2 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2026-02-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | 256K |
| Max output | 8K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | $3 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.5 (#86)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1472 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Seed 2.0 Pro: 24.1 (#165)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 28.4% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 57.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1453 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, Seed 2.0 Pro: 39.3 (#108)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1439 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, Seed 2.0 Pro: 40.2 (#122)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1440 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codestral: —, Seed 2.0 Pro: 41.5 (#35)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1274 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, Seed 2.0 Pro: 54.5 (#39)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1441 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1489 |
| LMArena French | — | 1471 |
| LMArena German | — | 1442 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1408 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1449 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1460 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, Seed 2.0 Pro: 74.5 (#91)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1414 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codestral: —, Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.6 (#90)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1428 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, Seed 2.0 Pro: 62.9 (#69)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1448 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1406 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1441 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Seed 2.0 Pro?
Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Codestral costs 2.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Seed 2.0 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Codestral or Seed 2.0 Pro?
Codestral is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Seed 2.0 Pro lists at $0.50 and $3.
Is Codestral or Seed 2.0 Pro better for coding?
Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 256K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Seed 2.0 Pro share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Seed 2.0 Pro has 20.