Is Kimi K3 (SCX.ai) or Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) cheaper?

Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) is cheaper on output tokens ($0.30 vs $15.68 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Kimi K3 (SCX.ai) or Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)?

Kimi K3 (SCX.ai) has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Kimi K3 (SCX.ai) vs Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)

Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) is cheaper on output tokens, while Kimi K3 (SCX.ai) offers a larger context window. Choose Kimi K3 (SCX.ai) 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	Kimi K3 (SCX.ai)	Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)
Provider	LLM Gateway	LLM Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$3.14	$0.07
Output / 1M tokens	$15.68	$0.30
Context window	1M	256K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Jul 2026	Jul 2025

Kimi K3 (SCX.ai) details →Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) details →

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