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ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code vs Meta: Muse Spark 1.2

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code Meta: Muse Spark 1.2
Vendorbytedance-seedmeta
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-66.5
Input Price$0.50/M$1.25/M
Output Price$3.00/M$4.25/M
Context Window262,1441,048,576
Max Output131,072943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-65.3

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Seed-2.0-Code costs $1.25 and Muse Spark 1.2 costs $2.31, so Seed-2.0-Code is about 1.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Muse Spark 1.2 reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Seed-2.0-Code.

Only Muse Spark 1.2 offers audio input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Seed-2.0-Code scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Muse Spark 1.2 on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Pick Seed-2.0-Code if you need lower cost; pick Muse Spark 1.2 if you need long documents, audio input or the stronger all-round task scores.

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?

TaskByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-CodeMeta: Muse Spark 1.2
SQL Generation 130 141
Code Review 126 144
Code Completion 128 120
Code Refactoring 127 146
Bug Fixing 130 148
Unit Test Generation 121 131
Code Documentation 125 136
Regex Writing 119 125
CI/CD Pipelines 117 127
Frontend Component Design 122 129
Data Analysis 124 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 136
ETL Scripting 122 137
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 128 120
OCR / Document Parsing 128 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 128 134
Long-Document Summarization 129 147
Short-Form Summarization 123 118
Blog Post Writing 118 129

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

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