MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest 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 Latest | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~moonshotai | bytedance-seed |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.16/M | $0.25/M |
| Output Price | $10.14/M | $2.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 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-Lite costs $0.75 and Kimi Latest costs $2.69, so Seed-2.0-Lite is about 3.6 times cheaper for the same work.
Kimi Latest reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Seed-2.0-Lite.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Kimi Latest scores higher on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Seed-2.0-Lite on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Kimi Latest was released in April 2026 and Seed-2.0-Lite in March 2026.
Pick Kimi Latest if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Seed-2.0-Lite 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 | MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 131 |
| Code Review | 132 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 129 | 128 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 129 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 117 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 129 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 126 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 121 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →