Seed 1.6 vs Kimi K2.5: API price and specs

Seed 1.6 is 74% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on input price.

Seed 1.6 is 76% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on output price.

Seed 1.6 is 75% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Field	Seed 1.6	Kimi K2.5
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.12	$0.45 +288.1%
Median input, per 1M	$0.25	$0.60 +140%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.29	$1.20 +313.8%
Median output, per 1M	$2.00	$3.00 +50%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.17	$0.69 +296.7%
Context	262K	262K
Max output	64K +75.6%	262K
Providers	9 +76.3%	38
Regions	APAC	EU, GLOBAL, US
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/heif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, text, video, video/3gpp, video/avi, video/mov, video/mp4, video/mpeg, video/mpg, video/webm, video/wmv, video/x-flv
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	qiniu-ai	deepinfra

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, vercel

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Seed 1.6 or Kimi K2.5?

Seed 1.6 is 74% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on input price. Seed 1.6 is 76% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on output price. Seed 1.6 is 75% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Seed 1.6 or Kimi K2.5?

Seed 1.6: 262K tokens; Kimi K2.5: 262K tokens.

Where can I use both Seed 1.6 and Kimi K2.5?

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