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Seed 1.6 Flash vs Claude Opus 4.8
List-price comparison ·Seed 1.6 Flash details ·Claude Opus 4.8 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Seed 1.6 Flash is the cheapest — 99% less than the priciest here ($21.00/mo vs $1,600.00/mo).
| Seed 1.6 Flash | Claude Opus 4.8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.075 | $5.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.300 | $25.00 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0002 | $0.016 |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 32,768 tokens | 128k tokens |
| Quality score | 65/100 | 97/100 |
| Tier | Flash | Flagship |
| Provider | ByteDance Seed | Anthropic |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Seed 1.6 Flash | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $0.21 | $16.00 |
| 10,000 | $2.10 | $160.00 |
| 100,000 | $21.00 | $1,600.00 |
Seed 1.6 Flash
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Claude Opus 4.8
Best-in-class for complex multi-step agentic workflows, long-horizon planning, and large codebase refactors. Strong instruction-following on ambiguous, open-ended tasks.
Highest per-token cost in the catalog and noticeably higher latency — reserve for tasks that genuinely need top-tier reasoning rather than routine completions.
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