ByteDance Seed Seed-2.0-Lite vs Qwen3.6 Plus
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.
- Qwen3.6 Plus accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 262K tokens.
| Seed-2.0-Lite | Qwen3.6 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ByteDance Seed | Qwen |
| Released | 2026-03-10 | 2026-04-02 |
| Input / 1M | $0.25 | $0.325 |
| Output / 1M | $2.00 | $1.95 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.688 | $0.731 |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 131K | 66K |
| Accepts | text, image, video | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $2.00 | $1.95 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Seed-2.0-Lite
$45.00 per month$1.50 per day
Qwen3.6 Plus
$48.75 per month$1.63 per day
Seed-2.0-Lite saves $3.75 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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