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OpenAI: GPT Sol Latest vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code

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

OpenAI: GPT Sol Latest ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code
Vendor~openaibytedance-seed
Quality Score100100
Input Price$2.00/M$0.50/M
Output Price$10.00/M$3.00/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,000131,072
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, Seed-2.0-Code costs $1.25 and GPT Sol Latest costs $4.50, so Seed-2.0-Code is about 3.6 times cheaper for the same work.

GPT Sol Latest reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Seed-2.0-Code.

Only Seed-2.0-Code offers video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, GPT Sol Latest scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Seed-2.0-Code on 5 (Code Completion, Regex Writing, JSON Extraction and others).

GPT Sol Latest was released in September 2026 and Seed-2.0-Code in August 2026.

Pick GPT Sol Latest if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Seed-2.0-Code 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?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Sol LatestByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code
SQL Generation 132 130
Code Review 132 126
Code Completion 117 128
Code Refactoring 136 127
Bug Fixing 136 130
Unit Test Generation 124 121
Code Documentation 129 125
Regex Writing 117 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 128
ETL Scripting 128 122
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 128
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 136 129
Short-Form Summarization 113 123
Blog Post Writing 120 118

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

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