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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-06-17.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Vendorminimaxbytedance-seed
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score80.9-
Input Price$0.30/M$0.25/M
Output Price$1.20/M$2.00/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output512,000131,072
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index73.3-
ai_index_agentic100.0-
ai_index_coding71.6-

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
SQL Generation 168 131
Code Review 163 126
Code Completion 133 128
Code Refactoring 161 127
Bug Fixing 179 130
Unit Test Generation 150 121
Code Documentation 142 126
Regex Writing 135 119
CI/CD Pipelines 142 117
Frontend Component Design 144 122
Data Analysis 169 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 150 128
ETL Scripting 151 122
JSON Extraction 145 131
Bulk Data Labeling 134 129
OCR / Document Parsing 143 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 143 128
Long-Document Summarization 158 129
Short-Form Summarization 131 123
Blog Post Writing 139 119

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

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