Seed 1.6 vs Seed 1.6 Flash: API price and specs

Seed 1.6 Flash is 81% cheaper than Seed 1.6 on input price.

Seed 1.6 Flash is 25% cheaper than Seed 1.6 on output price.

Seed 1.6 Flash is 63% cheaper than Seed 1.6 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Field	Seed 1.6	Seed 1.6 Flash
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.12 +433.3%	$0.02174
Median input, per 1M	$0.25 +233.3%	$0.075
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.29 +33.4%	$0.22
Median output, per 1M	$2.00 +566.7%	$0.30
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.17 +166.7%	$0.06522
Context	262K	262K
Max output	64K	33K +48.4%
Providers	9	8 +11.1%
Regions	APAC	APAC
Accepts	image, image/bmp, image/gif, image/heic, image/jp2, image/jpeg, image/png, image/sgi, image/tiff, image/webp, image/x-icns, image/x-icon, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/x-msvideo	image, image/bmp, image/gif, image/heic, image/jp2, image/jpeg, image/png, image/sgi, image/tiff, image/webp, image/x-icns, image/x-icon, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/x-msvideo
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	qiniu-ai	qiniu-ai

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aihubmix, aiml, edenai, kilo, ofox, openrouter, qiniu-ai, trustedrouter

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Seed 1.6 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

Seed 1.6 Flash is 81% cheaper than Seed 1.6 on input price. Seed 1.6 Flash is 25% cheaper than Seed 1.6 on output price. Seed 1.6 Flash is 63% cheaper than Seed 1.6 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Seed 1.6 or Seed 1.6 Flash?

Seed 1.6: 262K tokens; Seed 1.6 Flash: 262K tokens.

Where can I use both Seed 1.6 and Seed 1.6 Flash?

aihubmix, aiml, edenai, kilo, ofox, openrouter, qiniu-ai, trustedrouter