Noometry

Model comparison

Seed 2.0 Pro vs Ministral 8B

Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 7.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Seed 2.0 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Seed 2.0 Pro ByteDance Seed

43.2

Rank #96 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Ministral 8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Seed 2.0 Pro leads 40.2 to 12.6.
  • Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Seed 2.0 Pro.
  • Ministral 8B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
  • Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Seed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
ProviderByteDance SeedMistral AI
Noometry Index43.228.2
Released2026-02-142024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window256K262K
Max output128K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.15
Results tracked2017

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Category by category

Coding Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.5 (#86), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Coding14721202

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Seed 2.0 Pro: —, Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—11.1%

Reasoning Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 24.1 (#165), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts14531191
NYT Connections (extended)28.4%—
Thematic Generalization57.1%—
DTBench—45.7%

Math Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 39.3 (#108), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Math14391188
MATH Level 5—14.9%

Knowledge Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 40.2 (#122), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Expert14401170
GPQA Diamond—27.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Seed 2.0 Pro: 41.5 (#35), Ministral 8B: —

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Vision1274—

Multilingual Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 54.5 (#39), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Non-English14411165
LMArena Chinese14891193
LMArena Russian14491195
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1442—
LMArena Japanese1408—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Spanish1460—

Instruction Following Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 74.5 (#91), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following14141161

Long Context Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.6 (#90), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Longer Query14281212

Writing & Preference Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 62.9 (#69), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Text14481191
LMArena Creative Writing14061175
LMArena Multi-Turn14411166

Frequently asked questions

Is Seed 2.0 Pro better than Ministral 8B?

Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 7.5× 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, Seed 2.0 Pro or Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Seed 2.0 Pro lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Seed 2.0 Pro or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Ministral 8B does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Seed 2.0 Pro and Ministral 8B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Seed 2.0 Pro has 20 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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