SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | x-ai | bytedance-seed |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $1.00/M | $0.25/M |
| Output Price | $2.00/M | $2.00/M |
| Context Window | 256,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 230,400 | 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 Grok Build 0.1 costs $1.50, so Seed-2.0-Lite is about 2.0 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 256,000 and 262,144 tokens, about 384 and 393 pages.
Only Seed-2.0-Lite offers video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Seed-2.0-Lite on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Grok Build 0.1 was released in May 2026 and Seed-2.0-Lite in March 2026.
Pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you need lower cost, video input or the stronger all-round task scores.
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 | SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 130 | 131 |
| Code Review | 126 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 116 | 128 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 130 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 121 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 117 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 127 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 123 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 121 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 115 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 118 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →