Model comparison
Seed 1.6 vs Claude 4 Sonnet
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Seed 1.6
Not scored
value score
Claude 4 Sonnet
91
value score
Seed 1.6 ctx
—
Claude 4 Sonnet ctx
200K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- Claude 4 Sonnet91
Attribute tape
| Field | Seed 1.6 | Claude 4 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | bytedance-seed | Anthropic |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Modalities | Text, Code, Image | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | Fast |
| Price | — | $3/1M in · $15/1M out |
| Value score | — | 91 |
| Summary | Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose multimodal large language model from ByteDance's Seed AI research team, featuring adaptive deep reasoning, native multimodal input (text, image, video), and a 256K-token context window. It is built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 23B active parameters out of 230B total, and is accessible via Volcano Engine APIs and OpenRouter. | Balanced Claude model for coding and agents. |