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ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo vs xAI: Grok Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo xAI: Grok Latest
Vendorbytedance-seed~x-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-10.6
Input Price$0.50/M$2.00/M
Output Price$2.50/M$6.00/M
Context Window262,144500,000
Max Output262,144-
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-12.0

Who wins by task?

TaskByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 TurboxAI: Grok Latest
SQL Generation 130 134
Code Review 126 134
Code Completion 128 118
Code Refactoring 127 137
Bug Fixing 130 138
Unit Test Generation 121 125
Code Documentation 125 131
Regex Writing 119 119
CI/CD Pipelines 117 121
Frontend Component Design 122 123
Data Analysis 124 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 133
ETL Scripting 122 129
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 119
OCR / Document Parsing 128 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 128 131
Long-Document Summarization 129 139
Short-Form Summarization 123 115
Blog Post Writing 118 122

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

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