Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Amazon
Amazon Nova 2 Lite, released by Amazon Web Services on December 2, 2025, is a fast, cost-efficient reasoning model available on Amazon Bedrock with a 1M token context window enabling extended document, video, and image analysis. It features three extended thinking intensity levels, built-in code interpreter, web grounding tools, and native support for text, image, video, and document input. Nova 2 Lite targets cost-sensitive agentic applications, document analysis pipelines, and real-time workloads requiring multimodal reasoning.
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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Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Seed-1.8
ByteDance
2025-12-18
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock
Seed-1.8
Nova 2 Lite
Seed-1.8
Nova 2 Lite
Seed-1.8