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Seed 1.6 Flash vs DeepSeek V3.2
List-price comparison · Seed 1.6 Flash details · DeepSeek V3.2 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Seed 1.6 Flash costs 49% less — $21.00/mo vs $41.18/mo.
| Seed 1.6 Flash | DeepSeek V3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.075 | $0.229 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.300 | $0.343 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0002 | $0.0004 |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Max output | 32,768 tokens | 64k tokens |
| Tier | Flash | Balanced |
| Provider | ByteDance Seed | DeepSeek |
Projected monthly cost
1,000 requests / month$0.21 vs $0.411810,000 requests / month$2.10 vs $4.12100,000 requests / month$21.00 vs $41.18
Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.
Seed 1.6 Flash
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DeepSeek V3.2
Extremely competitive coding and reasoning benchmarks at a fraction of commercial-API pricing — strong default for cost-sensitive batch workloads.
Open-weight hosting means latency and uptime vary by inference provider (DeepInfra, Fireworks, etc.) — pin a provider or add fallbacks for production SLAs.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.