Is Claude 4.8 Opus or Seed-2.0-Mini cheaper?

Seed-2.0-Mini is cheaper on output tokens ($0.55 vs $34.39 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Claude 4.8 Opus or Seed-2.0-Mini?

Claude 4.8 Opus has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Claude 4.8 Opus vs Seed-2.0-Mini

Seed-2.0-Mini is cheaper on output tokens, while Claude 4.8 Opus offers a larger context window. Choose Claude 4.8 Opus or Seed-2.0-Mini based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Claude 4.8 Opus	Seed-2.0-Mini
Provider	AI/ML API	AI/ML API
Input / 1M tokens	$6.88	$0.14
Output / 1M tokens	$34.39	$0.55
Context window	1M	262K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	May 2026	Feb 2026

Claude 4.8 Opus details →Seed-2.0-Mini details →

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