Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~anthropic | bytedance-seed |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.10/M |
| Output Price | $10.00/M | $0.40/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Seed-2.0-Mini costs $0.20 and Claude Sonnet Latest costs $4.50, so Seed-2.0-Mini is about 22.5 times cheaper for the same work.
Claude Sonnet Latest reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Seed-2.0-Mini.
Only Seed-2.0-Mini offers video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Claude Sonnet Latest scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Seed-2.0-Mini on 5 (Code Completion, Regex Writing, JSON Extraction and others).
Claude Sonnet Latest was released in April 2026 and Seed-2.0-Mini in February 2026.
Pick Claude Sonnet Latest if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Seed-2.0-Mini if you need lower cost or 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 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 132 | 131 |
| Code Review | 132 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 117 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 129 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 117 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 132 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 121 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 118 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 136 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 113 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 120 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →