OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~openai | bytedance-seed |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.75/M | $0.25/M |
| Output Price | $4.50/M | $2.00/M |
| Context Window | 400,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 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 GPT Mini Latest costs $1.88, so Seed-2.0-Lite is about 2.5 times cheaper for the same work.
GPT Mini Latest reads up to 400,000 tokens at once, roughly 600 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Seed-2.0-Lite.
Only Seed-2.0-Lite offers video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, GPT Mini 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).
GPT Mini Latest was released in April 2026 and Seed-2.0-Lite in March 2026.
Pick GPT Mini Latest if you need long documents or 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 | OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 131 |
| Code Review | 132 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 130 | 128 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 130 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 130 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 128 | 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 →