Mistral Large 2 vs Seed 2.0 Pro: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Mistral Large 2 is developed by Mistral AI, while Seed 2.0 Pro comes from ByteDance. Mistral Large 2 was released in July 2024, and Seed 2.0 Pro followed 19 months later in February 2026. Mistral Large 2 has a published size of about 123 billion parameters; ByteDance has not disclosed the parameter count of Seed 2.0 Pro.
We have 5 benchmark results for Mistral Large 2 and 6 benchmark results for Seed 2.0 Pro, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Seed 2.0 Pro is the cheaper API at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens, roughly 4 times cheaper than Mistral Large 2 at $2 and $6. Seed 2.0 Pro takes the larger context window at 256K tokens, compared with 128K for Mistral Large 2. Mistral Large 2 accepts text as input, while Seed 2.0 Pro accepts text and images.
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| Characteristic | Mistral Large 2 | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Mistral AI | ByteDance |
| Release Date | July 24, 2024 | February 14, 2026 |
| Parameters | 123B | — |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 128K | 256K |
| Context (output) | 128K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $2.00 | $0.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | $6.00 | $3.00 |
| Average Score | 87.6% | 87.1% |
Verdict
Seed 2.0 Pro leads in 3 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Mistral Large 2 — 0.9, Seed 2.0 Pro — 0.9.
Seed 2.0 Pro is 2.3x cheaper: input $0.50/1M vs $2.00/1M tokens.
Seed 2.0 Pro supports a larger context: 256K vs 128K tokens.
Seed 2.0 Pro is newer: released 2/14/2026 vs 7/24/2024.
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