Model comparison

Seed 2.0 Pro vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

Seed 2.0 Pro and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.2 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Seed 2.0 Pro ByteDance Seed

43.2

Rank #96 Confirmed

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 47.6 to 39.3.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper at $0.0675 / $0.23 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Seed 2.0 Pro.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Seed 2.0 Pro and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT specifications
Seed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
ProviderByteDance SeedGoogle
Noometry Index43.243.5
Released2026-02-142026-04-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window256K262K
Max output128K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.0675
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.23
Results tracked2028

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Category by category

Coding Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.5 (#86), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Coding14721447
LMArena WebDev—1359
SciCode—40%
WeirdML—35.2%
ALE-Bench—927.17

Reasoning Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 24.1 (#165), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Hard Prompts14531439
NYT Connections (extended)28.4%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—6%
Thematic Generalization57.1%—
DTBench—74.9%
LMCA—29.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.85

Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 39.3 (#108), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Math14391470
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—82.2%

Knowledge Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 40.2 (#122), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Expert14401447
GPQA Diamond—73.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.2%

Multimodal Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 41.5 (#35), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Vision12741260

Multilingual Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 54.5 (#39), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Non-English14411421
LMArena Chinese14891495
LMArena French14711460
LMArena Russian14491434
LMArena Spanish14601417
LMArena German1442—
LMArena Japanese1408—
LMArena Korean1411—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 74.5 (#91), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Instruction Following14141420

Long Context Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.6 (#90), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Longer Query14281428

Writing & Preference Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 62.9 (#69), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Text14481434
LMArena Creative Writing14061402
LMArena Multi-Turn14411441
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1305

Frequently asked questions

Is Seed 2.0 Pro better than Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?

Seed 2.0 Pro and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.2 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Seed 2.0 Pro or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.0675 per million input tokens and $0.23 per million output tokens; Seed 2.0 Pro lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Seed 2.0 Pro or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better for coding?

Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Seed 2.0 Pro and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Seed 2.0 Pro has 20 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28.

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