Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Seed 1.5-VL supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5.2 Codex is a coding-specialized variant from the GPT-5.2 family, designed for software engineering workflows including automated code generation, multi-file editing, and agentic development. It builds on GPT-5.2's improved instruction following and long-context capabilities, with optimizations specifically targeting programming tasks and agentic software workflows.
ByteDance
Seed1.5-VL, released by ByteDance Seed on May 15, 2025, is a vision-language foundation model composed of a 532M-parameter vision encoder and a Mixture-of-Experts language model with 20 billion active parameters. It was pretrained on over 3 trillion multimodal tokens and achieved state-of-the-art performance on 38 out of 60 public VLM benchmarks at release. Seed1.5-VL targets complex visual reasoning, OCR, video comprehension, 3D spatial understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks.
8 months newer
Seed 1.5-VL
ByteDance
2025-05-15

GPT-5.2 Codex
OpenAI
2026-01-14
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.2 Codex
Seed 1.5-VL
GPT-5.2 Codex
Seed 1.5-VL