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ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
Vendorbytedance-seedmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-59.2
Input Price$0.10/M$0.45/M
Output Price$0.40/M$2.25/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output131,072235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-38.7
eqbench-72.5

Who wins by task?

TaskByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-MiniMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
SQL Generation 131 140
Code Review 126 142
Code Completion 129 131
Code Refactoring 127 143
Bug Fixing 130 146
Unit Test Generation 121 131
Code Documentation 126 135
Regex Writing 119 126
CI/CD Pipelines 117 127
Frontend Component Design 122 129
Data Analysis 124 134
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 134
ETL Scripting 122 135
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 128 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 128 132
Long-Document Summarization 129 145
Short-Form Summarization 123 126
Blog Post Writing 119 128

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

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