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Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

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

Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Vendorqwenbytedance-seed
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score64.8-
Input Price$0.32/M$0.25/M
Output Price$1.28/M$2.00/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output131,072131,072
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index64.3-
ai_index_agentic34.3-
ai_index_coding92.2-

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.7 Plus costs $0.64 and Seed-2.0-Lite costs $0.75, so Qwen3.7 Plus is slightly cheaper for the same work.

Qwen3.7 Plus reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Seed-2.0-Lite.

Only Seed-2.0-Lite offers video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.7 Plus scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Qwen3.7 Plus was released in June 2026 and Seed-2.0-Lite in March 2026.

Pick Qwen3.7 Plus if you need lower cost, long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Seed-2.0-Lite 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?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.7 PlusByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
SQL Generation 162 131
Code Review 157 126
Code Completion 133 128
Code Refactoring 157 127
Bug Fixing 166 130
Unit Test Generation 147 121
Code Documentation 140 126
Regex Writing 131 119
CI/CD Pipelines 138 117
Frontend Component Design 140 122
Data Analysis 156 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 151 128
ETL Scripting 147 122
JSON Extraction 146 131
Bulk Data Labeling 134 129
OCR / Document Parsing 144 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 144 128
Long-Document Summarization 153 129
Short-Form Summarization 129 123
Blog Post Writing 135 119

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

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