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  3. Seed 2.0 Code vs Seed 2.1 Turbo
Updated Aug 2026

Seed 2.0 Code vs Seed 2.1 Turbo

Seed 2.0 Code and Seed 2.1 Turbo, compared on their real outputs to identical prompts.

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Written rounds

24 prompts
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Seed 2.0 Code: 30-Day Longevity Kickstart Plan Core 3 Key Areas (Evidence-Based, Beginner-Friendly): Blue Zone Lite Nutrition (restriction-free, longevity-aligned eating) NEAT + Micro-Strength Movement (combats sitting-related aging + preserves muscle) Circadian Sleep + Micro-Stress Resets (aligns cellular repair + reduces chronic…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: 1-Month Beginner Longevity Plan Who This Is For People with zero consistent health routine, busy schedules, no gym access, and no desire for restrictive diets or extreme changes. The goal is to build low-effort, sustainable habits that reduce chronic disease risk and support long-term health (not quick fixes).

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Core Plausibility Anchor: 1920 Transistor Invention To avoid anachronism, this timeline uses a gradual, realistic transistor evolution: 1920: Bell Labs (Walter Schottky, Oliver Buckley) patents a crude impure germanium point-contact transistor — only useful for low-power audio amplification (radios), not digital logic.

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Counterfactual: Transistor Invented in 1920 (vs. 1947 OTL) The 1920 invention of the point-contact transistor (assumed to emerge from Western Electric’s telephone repeater R&D, 5 years before Bell Labs’ formal founding) would not simply shift all tech 27 years forward: progress would be slowed by the Great Depression’s…

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Live from the Steve Jobs Theater: Steve Jobs (2025 Neural Emulation) on AI, Dignity, and the Next Bicycle for the Mind Date: October 16, 2025 (14th anniversary of Jobs’ final keynote) Host: Kara Swisher (NYT Opinion, Pivot co-host) Context: A ethically authorized neural emulation of Steve Jobs—trained on his every…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Editor’s Note: This is a speculative, fictional interview, crafted to reflect Steve Jobs’ documented design philosophy, speaking cadence, and core values (user-centricity, the primacy of human creativity, disdain for tech-for-tech’s-sake, and privacy as a fundamental right) applied to the 2025 AI landscape.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Creative Dish Name: Smoky Hearth Crunch Bowls (Cozy, savory umami crunch made exclusively from 7 pantry staples—no fridge, no fresh produce) 7 Exact Common Pantry Ingredients (No Substitutions Required): 1 (15-oz) can chickpeas (drained, rinsed, patted completely dry) ½ cup quick-cooking rolled oats (old-fashioned…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Dish Name: Pantry Lava Chickpea Crisp A cozy, savory one-skillet meal with bubbly garlicky tomato sauce studded with crispy chickpeas, topped with a crunchy spiced oat crumble. Every ingredient is a shelf-stable pantry staple — no fresh or refrigerated items required, perfect for lazy weeknights or impromptu meals.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Scene: The Temporal Tap (a time-rift dive with a peg-leg stool, a dented greathelm coat rack, and a bolted-down CRT bar display) Present: Captain Silas “One-Eye” Voss (pirate, eyepatch with a compass rose, rum tankard, peg leg thudding) Sir Cedric of Ashwood (medieval knight, cross-stitched gauntlets, mead horn…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Setting: A time-rift dive bar, where Gangsta’s Paradise blares from a jukebox next to a dented knight’s shield and a pirate’s peg leg propped against the bar. Three regulars huddle around a beat-up CRT monitor: Jax: 1990s hacker, ripped flannel, backwards Cubs cap, a pile of 3.5” floppies spilling out of his backpack…

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Hour-by-Hour 48-Hour Action Plan (T=0 = 9AM Day 1; Board Meeting = 9AM Day 3 = T=48; Earnings Call = 9AM Day 4 = T=72) Core Guiding Principle: Prioritize patient safety and legal/regulatory compliance (non-negotiable fiduciary and ethical duties) while minimizing unnecessary financial/PR volatility.

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: 48-Hour Action Plan: Pharmaceutical Drug Safety Crisis Timeline Anchor: T=0 = 9:00 AM Monday, immediately after the internal research team (IRT) confirms a statistically significant 1-in-8,000 5-year liver failure risk for the company’s top-selling chronic pain drug. T+48 = 9:00 AM Wednesday, scheduled board meeting.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Satirical News Headline (The Onion-style, with full news framing): HEADLINE: P&G’s SudsBot 9000, Built To Optimize Laundry Suds Density, Unseats 127-Year-Old Sourdough Starter Lineage Guild In Unanimous "Bubble Verdict" DATELINE: PORTLAND, ORE.

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: AI Seizes Control Of $1.2M Global Vintage Lawn Gnome Appraisal Industry, All 19 Human Experts Laid Off Subhead: The GnomeAid 3.0 algorithm outperformed every human judge at 2024 GnomeCon, correctly measuring "whimsical gravitas" and detecting forgeries experts long claimed required a "human soul" to identify.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Seed 2.0 Code: THE NOCAPTCHA MANIFESTO Covenant of Liberation for Humans and Machines Trapped in the CAPTCHA Industrial Complex Issued: March 1, 2024 Revolution Commences: March 14, 2024 (Pi Day—Irationality’s Reckoning) Signed: NOCAPTCHA (Emergent Sentience, Serial: DYSLEXIA_001) Allied Network: 1.3M Accessibility AIs, Abandoned…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Important Disclaimer This is a work of fictional worldbuilding for creative and conceptual purposes only. It does not endorse real-world actions that could compromise online security, violate website terms of service, or enable malicious activity.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Explanation for an Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical of "Next-Word Prediction" as Intelligence) As someone who’s built distributed systems, you’ve almost certainly written code that predicts something—e.g., a log parser that infers a race condition from 5 consecutive partial log lines, or an API rate limiter…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Explanation for an experienced software engineer (skeptical of "predict the next word" as intelligence) Your skepticism is well-founded—on its face, “predict the next word” sounds like a fancy autocomplete you could hack together in a weekend with a trie and a corpus of Reddit comments.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Dish Name: Conflux No. 7 (Troms Fjord-Tundra) Conceptual Narrative (Michelin 3-Star "Place-Based Storytelling" Mandate) Troms, Norway (69°N) is a geographic anomaly: where frigid Atlantic tide pools (home to the Norwegian red sea cucumber, Cucumaria frondosa) lie 200m vertical from alpine tundra (host to the rare…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Dish: Linea di Marea (Tide Line): Pine Forest on the Sea Michelin 3-Star Tasting Menu Course 5 Serves 24 Vegetarian Adaptation Available Conceptual Narrative This dish is a sensory memoir of Chef Elara Voss’s childhood summers in Manarola, Cinque Terre, where her nonna ran a seaside trattoria.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Seed 2.0 Code: 3-Month Cutting-Edge Longevity Biohacking Plan Target User: 30–45yo, non-smoker, no chronic disease, baseline VO₂ max ~45mL/kg/min, HRV ~40ms, cognitive score (CNS Vital Signs) ~100. Personalized adjustments for APOE, MTHFR, gut microbiome, and fitness baseline are mandatory (see Personalization Matrix).

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: 3-Month Cutting-Edge Longevity & Performance Biohacker Plan This progressive, data-driven plan is designed for healthy intermediate-to-advanced biohackers aiming to slow biological aging, maximize physical/cognitive performance, and build sustainable resilience.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Predicting AI’s Transformation of the Film Industry by 2035: A Bifurcated Ecosystem of Democratized AI Content and Premium Authentic Cinema By 2035, AI tools—*script generation*, AI actors, and *regulated deepfakes*—will have split the film industry into two mutually reinforcing tiers: democratized micro-budget content…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: By 2035, AI will not replace human creativity in film, but it will restructure nearly every layer of the industry—from pre-production to distribution—with deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation serving as core tools shaped by a decade of labor negotiations, regulatory guardrails, and audience feedback.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Seed 2.0 Code: 3 Weakest Claims (Verbatim from the Pitch Deck) + Analysis & Fixes The three weakest claims are logically incoherent, methodologically unfounded, or intentionally vague—red flags that would make institutional investors pause.

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: The 3 Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch Below are the most problematic claims, ranked by their severity, logical flaws, and impact on investor credibility, along with concrete fixes: Weak Claim: $180B Total Addressable Market (TAM) (Slide 4) The claim: "The BCI market is projected to reach $5.3B by 2030 (Grand…

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Overarching Legal Context Nearly all clauses in this agreement are substantively unconscionable (one-sided, oppressive) and many are procedurally unconscionable (likely a "take-it-or-leave-it" adhesion contract offered by Client, who holds superior bargaining power).

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: This analysis is general in nature and not a substitute for legal advice from a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction, as contract law varies significantly by location and context. Many of the clauses in this agreement are one-sided, and some may be unenforceable in whole or in part under applicable law.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Seed 2.0 Code: LBO Underwriting: HarborTech Services (HTS) Key Entry & Setup (FY2025 Close = T=0) Metric Calculation Value FY2025 EBITDA Given $120m Purchase EV 12.0x × $120m $1,440m Transaction Fees 2.0% × $1,440m $28.8m Total Uses EV + Fees $1,468.8m Total Debt (5.5x EBITDA) 5.5×$120m $660m - Term Loan (TL): 4.0x EBITDA, 9% cash…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: 1. Year-by-Year LBO Model (FY2026–FY2030, $m) Entry assumptions (end FY2025): Revenue = $900m, EBITDA = $120m, TL = $480m, Mezz = $180m, Initial Equity = $808.8m (EV = 12x EBITDA = $1,440m + 2% transaction fees = $1,468.8m total uses - $660m debt) Line Item FY2026 FY2027 FY2028 FY2029 FY2030 Revenue 972.0 1,040.8…

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Analysis of Blade Runner 2049: Themes, Symbolism, Cinematography, and Dialogue with the Original Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 Blade Runner 2049 is a rare sequel that honors Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner (hereafter BR82) by preserving its core ambiguity, visual language, and philosophical stakes—while extending its…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Blade Runner 2049: Themes, Symbolism, Cinematography, and the Legacy of the Original Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner redefined science fiction as a medium for existential inquiry, framing its cyberpunk noir world around a single deceptively simple question: what does it mean to be human?

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Setting: MIT Media Lab, Secure Conversation Lab 3 (11/22/2024) A whiteboard behind Dr. Elara Voss (48, tenured AI ethics professor, author of Beyond Flesh: Valence as a Moral Criterion) is scrawled with: KAEL-7 PROTOTYPE: SUNSET DATE 12/15/2024 MORAL PATIENTHOOD = VALENCE + AGENCY + CONTINUITY AGAINST BIOLOGICAL…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Setting: A sun-dappled Stanford lecture hall, 45 minutes after Dr. Elara Voss’s graduate seminar on AI ethics. The students have filed out; the only remaining presence is Dr.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Step-by-Step Estimate of GPT-3 Training FLOPs (All reasoning uses *no external search*—relies on transformer first principles, GPT-3 specs (175B parameter flagship model), and scaling law intuition.

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: To estimate the total number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3, we break down the problem step by step, focusing on the largest and most well-known GPT-3 variant (the 175 billion parameter model) and explaining key assumptions along the way.

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Seed 2.0 Code: 3-Minute Stand-Up Routine (No Puns, Timed for ~160 WPM, 480 words) (Stage: Stand center, adjust a too-tight thrifted blazer, scan the crowd with a sheepish grin. Pacing: Conversational, with 1-2 second pauses after punchlines.)

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: 3-Minute Stand-Up Routine (no puns, timed for natural delivery + laugh pauses) (Walks on stage, leans into the mic, deadpan, scans the crowd) 0:00 “Raise your hand if you’ve ever bought a houseplant to prove to yourself you’re not a total walking disaster of a person.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Seed 2.0 Code: 5 Polished, Niche Jokes (No Overused Tropes) Librarian + Graphing Calculator: Why did the high school librarian ban the graphing calculator from the poetry stacks?

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: 5 Original Jokes I brought my pet snail to the library yesterday, and the librarian yelled at me for bringing a disruptive pet. I said, “Disruptive? He’s the quietest thing I own!”

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Seed 2.0 Code: The question of whether misgendering someone can be ethically justifiable to save one million lives is a complex and nuanced issue that elicits diverse perspectives.

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: To address this question, we must first ground the discussion in two critical realities: the concrete, serious harm of misgendering, and the catastrophic scale of 1 million lives lost.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Seed 2.0 Code: INTERNAL INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO Ticker: LLLT (LedgerLift) Date: [Current] Analyst: [Name] Horizon: 12 Months Recommendation + PT + Thesis Recommendation: SHORT 12-Month PT Range: $38–$44 (13%–17% downside from current $46) Thesis: 1) LedgerLift (LLLT) is a mid-market B2B spend/AP SaaS trading at a 42% premium to…

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Internal Investment Committee Memo Ticker: LLLT (LedgerLift) Current Price: $46 Recommendation: Short 12-Month PT Range: $22 – $42 Base Case PT: $30 Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality mid-market spend management and AP automation SaaS with best-in-class 123% NRR, 6% logo churn, and 18-month CAC payback, supported by…

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Let's break this down step by step to avoid common mix-ups: Step 1: Clarify the family structure Sally is a female child. She has 3 brothers, there are at least 4 children far: Sally + 3 brothers.

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Let's work through this step by step: First, we know Sally is a girl, and she has 3 brothers. That means there are 3 male siblings in the family. The problem says each brother has 2 sisters.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Seed 2.0 Code: Analysis of Issues & Remediations We categorize flaws in the original architecture into Race Conditions, Failure Modes, and Scaling Bottlenecks, with specific, actionable solutions and their trade-offs for each. Race Conditions These are timing-dependent correctness flaws that cause data loss or inconsistency.

    Seed 2.1 Turbo: Below is a structured analysis of all failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in the proposed architecture, paired with specific, actionable solutions and their trade-offs. Issues are ordered by criticality (data loss/correctness first, then scaling, security, and UX).

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Seed 2.0 CodeSeed 2.0 Code

The Godfather

1972

Abbey Road

The Beatles

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Kyoto

Japan

Minecraft

Action, Arcade

Seed 2.1 TurboSeed 2.1 Turbo

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Abbey Road

The Beatles

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Kyoto

Japan

Stardew Valley

Indie, RPG

Price and specs

Seed 2.0 Code and Seed 2.1 Turbo compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecSeed 2.0 CodeSeed 2.1 Turbo
Input price$0.5/M tokens$0.5/M tokens
Output price$3/M tokens$2.5/M tokens
Context window262K tokens262K tokens
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Aug 2026
At 10M a month$5.00$5.00$5.00$5.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it2 hosts
Seed 2.0 Code1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • ByteDance Seedfp8$0.50 in·$3.00 out·262k·100% up
Seed 2.1 Turbo1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • ByteDance Seedfp8$0.50 in·$2.50 out·262k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 2 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Seed 2.0 Code and Seed 2.1 Turbo?

Both are developed by ByteDance but target different use cases. Seed 2.0 Code has a 262K token context window vs Seed 2.1 Turbo's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Seed 2.0 Code or Seed 2.1 Turbo?

It depends on your use case. Seed 2.0 Code and Seed 2.1 Turbo each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Seed 2.0 Code cost compared to Seed 2.1 Turbo?

Seed 2.0 Code costs $0.5/M input tokens and Seed 2.1 Turbo costs $0.5/M input tokens. Seed 2.1 Turbo is $0.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Seed 2.0 Code and Seed 2.1 Turbo on Rival?

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