AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — Microsoft Research
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is a 15B-parameter open-weight vision-language reasoning model from Microsoft, released on March 4, 2026 under the MIT licence. It takes text and image input, is trained mainly on English, and has a 16,384-token context length.
Model B — ByteDance Seed
Seed2.1 Turbo is the efficient, high-throughput model of ByteDance Seed's Seed2.1 family, with deep reasoning, multimodal understanding and tool use and a 256K context, offered on BytePlus ModelArk as Dola-Seed-2.1-Turbo.
| Property | Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B | Seed2.1 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Mar 4, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 |
| Developer | Microsoft Research | ByteDance Seed |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | open-weight | proprietary |
| Context window | 16,384 | — |
| Parameters | 15B | — |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $/M tokens | — | $2.50 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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