Is GPT-4 (OpenAI) or Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) cheaper?

Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) is cheaper on output tokens ($0.30 vs $60.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, GPT-4 (OpenAI) or Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)?

Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) has the larger context window (256K tokens).

GPT-4 (OpenAI) vs Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)

Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) is cheaper on output tokens, while Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) offers a larger context window. Choose GPT-4 (OpenAI) or Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	GPT-4 (OpenAI)	Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)
Provider	LLM Gateway	LLM Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$30.00	$0.07
Output / 1M tokens	$60.00	$0.30
Context window	8K	256K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Nov 2023	Jul 2025

GPT-4 (OpenAI) details →Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) details →

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