ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code vs Sakana: Sakana Namazu
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.
| ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code | Sakana: Sakana Namazu | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | bytedance-seed | sakana |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.50/M | $0.95/M |
| Output Price | $3.00/M | $4.00/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 65,536 |
| 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-Code costs $1.25 and Sakana Namazu costs $1.95, so Seed-2.0-Code is about 1.6 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.
Only Seed-2.0-Code offers video input.
Across the 10 tasks where they differ, Seed-2.0-Code scores higher on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).
Pick Seed-2.0-Code if you need lower cost, video 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?
| Task | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code | Sakana: Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 130 | 130 |
| Code Completion | 128 | 128 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 125 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 128 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 128 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 118 | 118 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →