Is Sonar (Perplexity) or Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) cheaper?

Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) is cheaper on output tokens ($0.30 vs $2.50 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Sonar (Perplexity) or Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)?

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

Sonar (Perplexity) 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 Sonar (Perplexity) 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	Sonar (Perplexity)	Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)
Provider	LLM Gateway	LLM Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$0.25	$0.07
Output / 1M tokens	$2.50	$0.30
Context window	130K	256K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Jan 2024	Jul 2025

Sonar (Perplexity) details →Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) details →

FAQ

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