Seed-2.0-Mini vs Gemma 4 31B

Seed-2.0-Mini at $0.115 in and $0.460 out and Gemma 4 31B at $0.115 in and $0.391 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Seed-2.0-Mini

ByteDance Seed

0.09¢

for a client proposal

$0.115 in · $0.460 out / 1M

262K context · released 5 months ago

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Gemma 4 31B

Google

0.09¢

for a client proposal

$0.115 in · $0.391 out / 1M

262K context · released 4 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.18¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

All 2 cost the same on input.
Cheapest output: Gemma 4 31B at $0.391 per million tokens.
Identical context windows: 262K tokens each.

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-2.0-Mini

0.05¢

Gemma 4 31B

0.04¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Seed-2.0-Mini

0.09¢

Gemma 4 31B

0.09¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Seed-2.0-Mini

3.9¢

Gemma 4 31B

1.9¢

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Seed-2.0-Mini

0.45¢

Gemma 4 31B

0.44¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Seed-2.0-Mini

$0.06

Gemma 4 31B

3¢

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

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80% Input20% Output

Seed-2.0-Mini

Gemma 4 31B

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

Pricing

Seed-2.0-Mini

Gemma 4 31B

Input / 1M tokens

$0.115

Output / 1M tokens

$0.460

$0.391

Cached input / 1M

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$0.115

Specs

Seed-2.0-Mini

Gemma 4 31B

Provider

ByteDance Seed

Google

Released

5 months ago

4 months ago

Context window

262K

Max output

131K

262K

Input

Text, Images, and Video

Images, Text, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Seed-2.0-Mini

ByteDance Seed

0.05¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

Gemma 4 31B

Google

0.04¢

for this task

54% input · 46% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.09¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 5,646 of these.

Which should you pick?

On price, Gemma 4 31B is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.09¢.

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-2.0-Mini pricing →Gemma 4 31B pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Seed-2.0-Mini or Gemma 4 31B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Gemma 4 31B at 0.09¢; Seed-2.0-Mini at 0.09¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

They are identical — 262K tokens each, about 370 pages.

Can I run Seed-2.0-Mini and Gemma 4 31B 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 0.18¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.18¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.