LLM Comparison
Seed 1.6 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026
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S Seed 1.6 |  Claude Sonnet 4.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | ByteDance |  Anthropic |
| OpenTools Score | 67 7.5 | |
| Family | Seed | Claude |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Dec 2025 | Feb 2026 |
| Context Window | 262K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $0.25/M tokens | $3.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $2.00/M tokens | $15.00/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | — | Cache read: $0.3000/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisionvideocode | textvisioncodetool-use |
| Max Output | 33K tokens | 128K tokens |
| API Identifier | bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU | — | 88 |
| HumanEval | — | 93.7 |
| MATH | — | 79.5 |
| GPQA | — | 68.9 |
| View Seed 1.6 | View Claude Sonnet 4.6 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed 1.6Cheapest | $0.25 | $1.00 | $1.25 | — |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +740% |
ByteDance
Seed 1.6
Seed 1.6 is a multimodal llm from ByteDance. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Available from $0.25/M input tokens.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal llm from Anthropic. Supports up to 1,000,000 token context window. Achieves 88.0% on MMLU. Available from $3.00/M input tokens.
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