LLM Comparison
Sonar Pro Search vs Seed 1.6 Flash
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026
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S Sonar Pro Search | S Seed 1.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Perplexity AI | ByteDance |
| OpenTools Score | ||
| Family | Sonar | Seed |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Oct 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| Context Window | 200K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Input Price | $3.00/M tokens | $0.07/M tokens |
| Output Price | $15.00/M tokens | $0.30/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textvisioncode | textvisionvideocode |
| Max Output | 8K tokens | 33K tokens |
| API Identifier | perplexity/sonar-pro-search | bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU | 83 | — |
| View Sonar Pro Search | View Seed 1.6 Flash | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed 1.6 FlashCheapest | $0.08 | $0.15 | $0.22 | — |
| Sonar Pro Search | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +4567% |
Perplexity AI
Sonar Pro Search
Sonar Pro Search is a multimodal llm from Perplexity AI. Supports up to 200,000 token context window. Achieves 83.0% on MMLU. Available from $3.00/M input tokens.
ByteDance
Seed 1.6 Flash
Seed 1.6 Flash is a multimodal llm from ByteDance. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Available from $0.07/M input tokens.
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