Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | bytedance-seed | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.25/M | $0.10/M |
| Output Price | $1.50/M | $0.40/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 65,536 | 131,072 |
| 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-Mini costs $0.20 and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview costs $0.62, so Seed-2.0-Mini is about 3.1 times cheaper for the same work.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Seed-2.0-Mini.
Only Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview offers audio input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview scores higher on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Seed-2.0-Mini on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview was released in March 2026 and Seed-2.0-Mini in February 2026.
Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview if you need long documents, audio input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Seed-2.0-Mini if you need lower cost.
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 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 131 |
| Code Review | 132 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →