ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | bytedance-seed | openai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 89.6 |
| Input Price | $0.25/M | $2.50/M |
| Output Price | $2.00/M | $15.00/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 1,050,000 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 84.8 |
| ai_index_agentic | - | 67.8 |
| ai_index_coding | - | 100.0 |
| eqbench | - | 75.6 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Seed-2.0-Lite costs $0.75 and GPT-5.4 costs $6.25, so Seed-2.0-Lite is about 8.3 times cheaper for the same work.
GPT-5.4 reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Seed-2.0-Lite.
Only Seed-2.0-Lite offers video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Seed-2.0-Lite scores higher on 3 (Code Completion, Bulk Data Labeling, Short-Form Summarization), GPT-5.4 on 17 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you need lower cost or video input; pick GPT-5.4 if you need long documents 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-Lite | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 131 | 174 |
| Code Review | 126 | 175 |
| Code Completion | 128 | 120 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 173 |
| Bug Fixing | 130 | 187 |
| Unit Test Generation | 121 | 158 |
| Code Documentation | 126 | 146 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 136 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 117 | 149 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 148 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 173 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 128 | 157 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 161 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 137 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 122 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 148 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 148 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 167 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 122 |
| Blog Post Writing | 119 | 143 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →