Is Claude 4.5 Opus or Seed-2.0-Lite cheaper?

Seed-2.0-Lite is cheaper on output tokens ($2.75 vs $34.39 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Claude 4.5 Opus or Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite has the larger context window (262K tokens).

Claude 4.5 Opus vs Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite is cheaper on output tokens, while Seed-2.0-Lite offers a larger context window. Choose Claude 4.5 Opus or Seed-2.0-Lite based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Claude 4.5 Opus	Seed-2.0-Lite
Provider	AI/ML API	AI/ML API
Input / 1M tokens	$6.88	$0.34
Output / 1M tokens	$34.39	$2.75
Context window	200K	262K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Nov 2025	Feb 2026

Claude 4.5 Opus details →Seed-2.0-Lite details →

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