Sakana Namazu vs Seed 2.0 Pro: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Sakana Namazu is developed by Sakana AI, while Seed 2.0 Pro comes from ByteDance. Seed 2.0 Pro was released in February 2026, and Sakana Namazu followed 6 months later in August 2026.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Sakana Namazu leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on AIME 2026, where Sakana Namazu scores 96.7% against 94.0%; LiveCodeBench v6, where Sakana Namazu scores 90.3% against 88.0%. Averaged across everything we track, Sakana Namazu sits at 92.4% and Seed 2.0 Pro at 87.1%.
Seed 2.0 Pro is the cheaper API at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens, about 90% below Sakana Namazu at $0.95 and $4. Both accept a context window of about 256K tokens. Both accept text and images as input. On tooling, only Seed 2.0 Pro supports function calling and only Seed 2.0 Pro offers structured output.
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| Characteristic | Sakana Namazu | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Sakana AI | ByteDance |
| Release Date | August 3, 2026 | February 14, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 256K | 256K |
| Context (output) | 256K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.95 | $0.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.00 | $3.00 |
| Average Score | 92.4% | 87.1% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| AIME 2026 | 96.7% | 94.0% |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 90.3% | 88.0% |
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Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Sakana Namazu — 0.9, Seed 2.0 Pro — 0.9.
Seed 2.0 Pro is 1.4x cheaper: input $0.50/1M vs $0.95/1M tokens.
Same context size: 256K tokens.
Sakana Namazu is newer: released 8/3/2026 vs 2/14/2026.
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