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Sakana: Fugu Max vs ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Sakana: Fugu Max ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo
Vendorsakanabytedance-seed
Quality Score100100
Input Price$2.00/M$0.50/M
Output Price$6.00/M$2.50/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Who wins by task?

TaskSakana: Fugu MaxByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo
SQL Generation 133 130
Code Review 132 126
Code Completion 118 128
Code Refactoring 136 127
Bug Fixing 136 130
Unit Test Generation 124 121
Code Documentation 130 125
Regex Writing 118 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 128
ETL Scripting 128 122
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 119 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 137 129
Short-Form Summarization 114 123
Blog Post Writing 121 118

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

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