xAI: Grok Latest vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| xAI: Grok Latest | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~x-ai | bytedance-seed |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 10.9 | - |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.25/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $2.00/M |
| Context Window | 500,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 450,000 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 12.4 | - |
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 Latest costs $3.50, so Seed-2.0-Lite is about 4.7 times cheaper for the same work.
Grok Latest reads up to 500,000 tokens at once, roughly 750 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, Grok Latest scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Seed-2.0-Lite on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Grok Latest was released in July 2026 and Seed-2.0-Lite in March 2026.
Pick Grok 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 | xAI: Grok Latest | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 134 | 131 |
| Code Review | 134 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 118 | 128 |
| Code Refactoring | 138 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 138 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 125 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 121 | 117 |
| Frontend Component Design | 123 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 125 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 129 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 139 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 115 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 122 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →