Grok-3 Mini vs Seed 2.0 Pro: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Grok-3 Mini is developed by xAI, while Seed 2.0 Pro comes from ByteDance. Grok-3 Mini was released in February 2025, and Seed 2.0 Pro followed 12 months later in February 2026.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Seed 2.0 Pro leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on AIME 2025, where Seed 2.0 Pro scores 98.0% against 91.0%; GPQA, where Seed 2.0 Pro scores 89.0% against 84.0%. Averaged across everything we track, Grok-3 Mini sits at 87.8% and Seed 2.0 Pro at 87.1%.
Grok-3 Mini is the cheaper API at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, about 67% below Seed 2.0 Pro at $0.50 and $3. Seed 2.0 Pro takes the larger context window at 256K tokens, compared with 128K for Grok-3 Mini. Both accept text and images as input.
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| Characteristic | Grok-3 Mini | Seed 2.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Company | xAI | ByteDance |
| Release Date | February 16, 2025 | February 14, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 128K | 256K |
| Context (output) | 8K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.30 | $0.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.50 | $3.00 |
| Average Score | 87.8% | 87.1% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| AIME 2025 | 91.0% | 98.0% |
| GPQA | 84.0% | 89.0% |
Visual Benchmark Comparison
Verdict
Seed 2.0 Pro leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Grok-3 Mini — 0.9, Seed 2.0 Pro — 0.9.
Grok-3 Mini is 4.4x cheaper: input $0.30/1M vs $0.50/1M tokens.
Seed 2.0 Pro supports a larger context: 256K vs 128K tokens.
Seed 2.0 Pro is newer: released 2/14/2026 vs 2/16/2025.
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