ByteDance Seed Seed-2.0-Mini vs DeepSeek V3.2
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Seed-2.0-Mini is 1.8× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Seed-2.0-Mini accepts longer prompts: 262K vs 164K tokens.
- Seed-2.0-Mini is the newer model (released 2026-02-26).
| Seed-2.0-Mini | DeepSeek V3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ByteDance Seed | DeepSeek |
| Released | 2026-02-26 | 2025-12-01 |
| Input / 1M | $0.10 | $0.28 |
| Output / 1M | $0.40 | $0.42 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.028 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.175 | $0.315 |
| Context | 262K | 164K |
| Max output | 131K | 66K |
| Accepts | text, image, video | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 9 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.40 | $0.31 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Seed-2.0-Mini
$12.00 per month$0.40 per day
DeepSeek V3.2
$23.10 per month$0.77 per day
Seed-2.0-Mini saves $11.10 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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