ByteDance Seed Seed 1.6 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Both cost about the same at a typical 3:1 input/output mix.
- Both accept prompts up to 262K tokens.
- Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is the newer model (released 2026-02-25).
| Seed 1.6 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ByteDance Seed | Qwen |
| Released | 2025-12-23 | 2026-02-25 |
| Input / 1M | $0.25 | $0.26 |
| Output / 1M | $2.00 | $2.08 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.688 | $0.715 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 33K | 66K |
| Accepts | text, image, video | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 4 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $2.00 | $2.08 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 99.77% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Seed 1.6
$45.00 per month$1.50 per day
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
$46.80 per month$1.56 per day
Seed 1.6 saves $1.80 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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