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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Seed 1.6
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026
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 Claude Sonnet 4.6 | S Seed 1.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Organization |  Anthropic | ByteDance |
| OpenTools Score | 47 5.2 | |
| Family | Claude | Seed |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Feb 2026 | Dec 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.0M tokens | 262K tokens |
| Input Price | $3.00/M tokens | $0.25/M tokens |
| Output Price | $15.00/M tokens | $2.00/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Cache read: $0.3000/M tokens | — |
| Capabilities | textvisioncodetool-use | textvisionvideocode |
| Max Output | 128K tokens | 33K tokens |
| API Identifier | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU | 86.7anthropic | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 42.7anthropic | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 37.2anthropic | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 51anthropic | — |
| MATH 500 | 54.2anthropic | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 41.5anthropic | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling | 88.3anthropic | — |
| HLE | 27.5anthropic | — |
| GPQA-AA Elo | 144.6anthropic | — |
| View Claude Sonnet 4.6 | View Seed 1.6 | |
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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% |
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.
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.
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