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Mistral: Mistral Small 4 vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

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

Mistral: Mistral Small 4 ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Vendormistralaibytedance-seed
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score3.8-
Input Price$0.15/M$0.25/M
Output Price$0.60/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_index9.6-

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Small 4ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
SQL Generation 132 131
Code Review 128 126
Code Completion 129 128
Code Refactoring 129 127
Bug Fixing 132 130
Unit Test Generation 122 121
Code Documentation 127 126
Regex Writing 120 119
CI/CD Pipelines 118 117
Frontend Component Design 123 122
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 131 129
Short-Form Summarization 124 123
Blog Post Writing 120 119

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

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