Is Grok 4.6 (xAI) or Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) cheaper?

Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) is cheaper on output tokens ($0.30 vs $6.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Grok 4.6 (xAI) or Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)?

Grok 4.6 (xAI) has the larger context window (500K tokens).

Grok 4.6 (xAI) vs Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)

Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) is cheaper on output tokens, while Grok 4.6 (xAI) offers a larger context window. Choose Grok 4.6 (xAI) 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	Grok 4.6 (xAI)	Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance)
Provider	LLM Gateway	LLM Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$2.00	$0.07
Output / 1M tokens	$6.00	$0.30
Context window	500K	256K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Aug 2026	Jul 2025

Grok 4.6 (xAI) details →Seed 1.6 Flash (250715) (ByteDance) details →

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