Seed 1.6 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro

Seed 1.6 at $0.287 in and $2.30 out and DeepSeek V4 Pro at $0.500 in and $1.00 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Seed 1.6

ByteDance Seed

0.33¢

for a client proposal

$0.287 in · $2.30 out / 1M

262K context · released December 2025

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DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek

0.33¢

for a client proposal

$0.500 in · $1.00 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 7 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.66¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Seed 1.6 at $0.287 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: DeepSeek V4 Pro at $1.00 per million tokens.
Largest context: DeepSeek V4 Pro at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Seed 1.6

0.17¢

DeepSeek V4 Pro

0.15¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Seed 1.6

0.33¢

DeepSeek V4 Pro

0.33¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Seed 1.6

$0.11

DeepSeek V4 Pro

$0.08

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Seed 1.6

1.2¢

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1.9¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Seed 1.6

$0.16

DeepSeek V4 Pro

$0.13

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Seed 1.6

DeepSeek V4 Pro

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Seed 1.6

DeepSeek V4 Pro

Input / 1M tokens

$0.287

$0.500

Output / 1M tokens

$2.30

$1.00

Cached input / 1M

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$0.0042

Specs

Seed 1.6

DeepSeek V4 Pro

Provider

ByteDance Seed

DeepSeek

Released

December 2025

7 months ago

Context window

262K

1.05M

Max output

33K

384K

Input

Images, Text, and Video

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Seed 1.6

ByteDance Seed

0.17¢

for this task

33% input · 67% output

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DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek

0.15¢

for this task

67% input · 33% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.32¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,550 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, DeepSeek V4 Pro has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Seed 1.6 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.33¢.

For images or files, Seed 1.6 can read them directly; DeepSeek V4 Pro is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Seed 1.6 pricing →DeepSeek V4 Pro pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Seed 1.6 or DeepSeek V4 Pro?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Seed 1.6 at 0.33¢; DeepSeek V4 Pro at 0.33¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

DeepSeek V4 Pro — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Seed 1.6 and DeepSeek V4 Pro side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.66¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.66¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.