MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | moonshotai | bytedance-seed |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 76.7 | - |
| Input Price | $0.65/M | $0.25/M |
| Output Price | $3.41/M | $2.00/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 235,929 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 73.0 | - |
| ai_index_agentic | 49.9 | - |
| ai_index_coding | 100.0 | - |
| eqbench | 63.5 | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Seed-2.0-Lite costs $0.75 and Kimi K2.6 costs $1.50, so Seed-2.0-Lite is about 2.0 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.
Only Seed-2.0-Lite offers video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Kimi K2.6 scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Kimi K2.6 was released in April 2026 and Seed-2.0-Lite in March 2026.
Pick Kimi K2.6 if you need the stronger all-round task scores; pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you need lower cost or video input.
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 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 168 | 131 |
| Code Review | 164 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 128 |
| Code Refactoring | 160 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 174 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 152 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 140 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 136 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 142 | 117 |
| Frontend Component Design | 145 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 166 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 151 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 151 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 147 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 134 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 144 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 144 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 156 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 131 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 139 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →