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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Vendormistralaibytedance-seed
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.3-
Input Price$1.50/M$0.25/M
Output Price$7.50/M$2.00/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output209,715131,072
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.4-

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
SQL Generation 133 131
Code Review 130 126
Code Completion 115 128
Code Refactoring 131 127
Bug Fixing 134 130
Unit Test Generation 124 121
Code Documentation 126 126
Regex Writing 120 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 117
Frontend Component Design 124 122
Data Analysis 127 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 128
ETL Scripting 125 122
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 119 129
OCR / Document Parsing 129 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 128
Long-Document Summarization 132 129
Short-Form Summarization 115 123
Blog Post Writing 121 119

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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