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Seed 2.1 Turbo vs Kimi K3

Live dataset updated 9/10/2026, 6:20:44 AM UTC

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Factual comparison of Seed 2.1 Turbo and Kimi K3
Field
Seed 2.1 Turbo

ByteDance Seed

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI

ModelCap position#18#6
Index score76.882.8
EvidenceEstimatedglobal-corpus-prior over 185 held-out anchors (12%); launch card against 2 resolved peers on 3 rows (88%); exceeds every named peer on 1 of 3 rows; no cross-lab optimism probe available; shrunk 3.1 toward the measured corpusMeasured6 public benchmark observations across 6 boards
Input / 1M$0.50$3.00
Output / 1M$2.50$15.00
Pricing statusfreshfresh
Context262K1M
Providers116
Weight accessAPI onlyRestricted license

Decision facts

  • Seed 2.1 Turbo is #18; Kimi K3 is #6 on the same current language board.
  • Index scores are 76.8 for Seed 2.1 Turbo and 82.8 for Kimi K3. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
  • Evidence differs: Seed 2.1 Turbo is Estimated; Kimi K3 is Measured.
  • Listed output price per 1M tokens is $2.50 for Seed 2.1 Turbo and $15.00 for Kimi K3. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $2.25 for Seed 2.1 Turbo versus $13.50 for Kimi K3. Seed 2.1 Turbo costs 83.3% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
  • Published context is 262,144 tokens for Seed 2.1 Turbo and 1,048,576 for Kimi K3.
  • Weight access differs: Seed 2.1 Turbo is none; Kimi K3 is restricted.
  • ModelCap currently lists 1 providers for Seed 2.1 Turbo and 16 for Kimi K3.

These are separate published fields, not a synthetic winner. ModelCap does not collapse price, access, context, and capability evidence into a hidden recommendation score.

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