Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | z-ai | bytedance-seed |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 56.8 | - |
| Input Price | $1.20/M | $0.25/M |
| Output Price | $4.00/M | $2.00/M |
| Context Window | 202,752 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 56.9 | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Seed-2.0-Lite costs $0.75 and GLM 5V Turbo costs $2.20, so Seed-2.0-Lite is about 2.9 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 202,752 and 262,144 tokens, about 304 and 393 pages.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GLM 5V Turbo scores higher on 15 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Seed-2.0-Lite on 5 (Code Completion, CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup, JSON Extraction and others).
GLM 5V Turbo was released in April 2026 and Seed-2.0-Lite in March 2026.
Pick GLM 5V Turbo if you need the stronger all-round task scores; pick Seed-2.0-Lite if you need lower cost.
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 | Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 136 | 131 |
| Code Review | 134 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 116 | 128 |
| Code Refactoring | 133 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 138 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 126 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 128 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 124 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 122 | 117 |
| Frontend Component Design | 128 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 132 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 127 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 123 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 120 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 129 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 129 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 134 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 117 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 124 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →