Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta AI
Llama 4 Maverick, released by Meta on April 5, 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 400 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 1M token context window and supports text and image input, enabling strong performance on both language and vision tasks. Maverick targets open-source deployments requiring large-scale multimodal reasoning, released under Meta's custom license.
ByteDance
Seed-1.8, developed by ByteDance Seed, is a generalized agentic large language model supporting text and image input, with industry-leading GUI agent capabilities and improvements in multimodal reasoning over its predecessor Seed1.5-VL. It targets information retrieval, code generation, GUI interaction, and complex agentic workflows requiring robust multimodal understanding.
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Llama 4 Maverick
Meta AI
2025-04-05
Seed-1.8
ByteDance
2025-12-18
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Llama 4 Maverick
Together AI
Seed-1.8
Llama 4 Maverick
Seed-1.8
Llama 4 Maverick
Seed-1.8