Mistral: Mistral Small 4 vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Mistral: Mistral Small 4 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | mistralai | bytedance-seed |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 6.1 | - |
| Input Price | $0.15/M | $0.25/M |
| Output Price | $0.60/M | $2.00/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 209,715 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 7.7 | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Mistral Small 4 costs $0.30 and Seed-2.0-Lite costs $0.75, so Mistral Small 4 is about 2.5 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.
Only Seed-2.0-Lite offers video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Mistral Small 4 scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Pick Mistral Small 4 if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you need video input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Mistral: Mistral Small 4 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 132 | 131 |
| Code Review | 127 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 129 | 128 |
| Code Refactoring | 129 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 131 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 122 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 127 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 120 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 118 | 117 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 125 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 128 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 123 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 130 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 124 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 120 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →