Model comparison
Seed 2.0 Pro vs Mistral 7B
Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 4.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Seed 2.0 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
ByteDance Seed
Mistral AISummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B 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 7.4.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Seed 2.0 Pro.
- Seed 2.0 Pro accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 8K.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ByteDance Seed | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 43.2 | 23.0 |
| Released | 2026-02-14 | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 8K |
| Max output | 128K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3 | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 20 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.5 (#86), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1472 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Reasoning Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Seed 2.0 Pro: 24.1 (#165), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1453 | 1067 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 28.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| Thematic Generalization | 57.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Seed 2.0 Pro: 39.3 (#108), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1439 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Seed 2.0 Pro: 40.2 (#122), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1440 | 1036 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Seed 2.0 Pro: 41.5 (#35), Mistral 7B: —
| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1274 | — |
Multilingual Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Seed 2.0 Pro: 54.5 (#39), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1441 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1489 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1471 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1442 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1408 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1449 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1460 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1411 | — |
Instruction Following Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Seed 2.0 Pro: 74.5 (#91), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1414 | 1060 |
Long Context Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.6 (#90), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1428 | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Seed 2.0 Pro leads
Seed 2.0 Pro: 62.9 (#69), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | Seed 2.0 Pro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1448 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1406 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1441 | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Seed 2.0 Pro better than Mistral 7B?
Seed 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 4.5× 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 Mistral 7B?
Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Seed 2.0 Pro lists at $0.50 and $3.
Is Seed 2.0 Pro or Mistral 7B better for coding?
Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 26.4 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 Mistral 7B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Seed 2.0 Pro has 20 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.