Model comparison

Seed 2.0 Pro vs GPT-4

Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Seed 2.0 Pro ByteDance Seed

42.5

Rank #97 Confirmed

GPT-4 OpenAI

28.9

Rank #308 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-4 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Seed 2.0 Pro leads 63.0 to 35.0.
  • Seed 2.0 Pro is cheaper at $0.50 / $3 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $60 for GPT-4.
  • Seed 2.0 Pro accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 8K.

Side by side

Seed 2.0 Pro and GPT-4 specifications
Seed 2.0 ProGPT-4
ProviderByteDance SeedOpenAI
Noometry Index42.528.9
Released2026-02-142023-03-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window256K8K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$30
Output $ / M tokens$3$60
Results tracked2038

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Category by category

Coding Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 42.9 (#84), GPT-4: 31.2 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
LMArena Coding14721254
WeirdML—12.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.2%
HumanEval+—79.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Seed 2.0 Pro: —, GPT-4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
METR Time Horizons—36.1%

Reasoning Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 23.1 (#167), GPT-4: 17.3 (#285)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
LMArena Hard Prompts14531241
NYT Connections (extended)28.4%—
Chess Puzzles—4%
Thematic Generalization57.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—17.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—75.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.88
ForecastBench—57.8
HellaSwag—95.3%
WinoGrande—87.5%

Math Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#110), GPT-4: 10.1 (#304)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
LMArena Math14401269
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.1%
MATH Level 5—23%
GSM8K—92%

Knowledge Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 39.6 (#119), GPT-4: 18.4 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
LMArena Expert14401211
GPQA Diamond—35.7%
MMLU—86.4%
TriviaQA—84.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Seed 2.0 Pro: 40.8 (#34), GPT-4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
LMArena Vision1275—

Multilingual Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 54.8 (#37), GPT-4: 40.8 (#210)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
LMArena Non-English14421246
LMArena Chinese14901242
LMArena French14701282
LMArena German14431251
LMArena Japanese14081209
LMArena Korean14121184
LMArena Russian14501251
LMArena Spanish14601261

Instruction Following Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 74.7 (#86), GPT-4: 65.5 (#217)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
LMArena Instruction Following14141241

Long Context Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.6 (#85), GPT-4: 37.7 (#207)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
LMArena Longer Query14281244

Writing & Preference Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 63.0 (#66), GPT-4: 35.0 (#263)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGPT-4
LMArena Text14481263
LMArena Creative Writing14061244
LMArena Multi-Turn14411257
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—752

Frequently asked questions

Is Seed 2.0 Pro better than GPT-4?

Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Seed 2.0 Pro or GPT-4?

Seed 2.0 Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; GPT-4 lists at $30 and $60.

Is Seed 2.0 Pro or GPT-4 better for coding?

Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.9 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Seed 2.0 Pro does, with 256K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Seed 2.0 Pro and GPT-4 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Seed 2.0 Pro has 20 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.

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