ByteDance Seed Seed-2.0-Mini vs Google Gemma 4 31B
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
- Seed-2.0-Mini is 1.4× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 262K tokens.
- Gemma 4 31B is the newer model (released 2026-04-02).
| Seed-2.0-Mini | Gemma 4 31B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ByteDance Seed | |
| Released | 2026-02-26 | 2026-04-02 |
| Input / 1M | $0.10 | $0.20 |
| Output / 1M | $0.40 | $0.40 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.175 | $0.25 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 131K | 16K |
| Accepts | text, image, video | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 16 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.40 | $0.34 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Seed-2.0-Mini
$12.00 per month$0.40 per day
Gemma 4 31B
$18.00 per month$0.60 per day
Seed-2.0-Mini saves $6.00 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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