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OpenAI: GPT Luna Latest vs ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

OpenAI: GPT Luna Latest ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo
Vendor~openaibytedance-seed
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.10/M$0.50/M
Output Price$0.50/M$2.50/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT Luna Latest costs $0.23 and Seed 2.1 Turbo costs $1.12, so GPT Luna Latest is about 5.0 times cheaper for the same work.

GPT Luna Latest reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Seed 2.1 Turbo.

Only Seed 2.1 Turbo offers video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, GPT Luna Latest scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

GPT Luna Latest was released in September 2026 and Seed 2.1 Turbo in August 2026.

Pick GPT Luna Latest if you need lower cost, long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Seed 2.1 Turbo if you need 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?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Luna LatestByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo
SQL Generation 133 130
Code Review 132 126
Code Completion 131 128
Code Refactoring 136 127
Bug Fixing 136 130
Unit Test Generation 124 121
Code Documentation 131 125
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 121 118

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

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