Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Seed 1.5-VL supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.1, released by MiniMax on December 23, 2025, is a large language model with approximately 230 billion parameters featuring strong multi-language programming capabilities and an industry-leading multilingual coding profile. It features a 196K token context window and is optimized for complex real-world software engineering tasks across Rust, Java, Golang, C++, TypeScript, and other languages. M2.1 targets agentic coding workflows and applications requiring production-grade programming across diverse language environments.
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.
7 months newer
Seed 1.5-VL
ByteDance
2025-05-15
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
2025-12-23
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
MiniMax M2.1
MiniMax
Seed 1.5-VL
MiniMax M2.1
Seed 1.5-VL
MiniMax M2.1
Seed 1.5-VL