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Seed 1.6 vs Claude Haiku 4.5
List-price comparison · Seed 1.6 details · Claude Haiku 4.5 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Seed 1.6 costs 66% less — $110.00/mo vs $320.00/mo.
| Seed 1.6 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.250 | $1.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $2.00 | $5.00 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0011 | $0.0032 |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens | 200k tokens |
| Max output | 32,768 tokens | 64k tokens |
| Tier | Balanced | Flash |
| Provider | ByteDance Seed | Anthropic |
Projected monthly cost
1,000 requests / month$1.10 vs $3.2010,000 requests / month$11.00 vs $32.00100,000 requests / month$110.00 vs $320.00
Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.
Seed 1.6
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Claude Haiku 4.5
Very low latency for high-volume, simple tasks — classification, short summaries, and lightweight chat where response time matters more than depth.
Noticeably weaker on multi-step reasoning and long-context synthesis; pairing with a larger model for escalation is common.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.