Seed-2.0-Mini vs GPT-4.1 Nano

Seed-2.0-Mini at $0.115 in and $0.460 out and GPT-4.1 Nano at $0.115 in and $0.460 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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GPT-4.1 Nano

OpenAI

0.09¢

for a client proposal

$0.115 in · $0.460 out / 1M

1.05M context · released April 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.19¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

All 2 cost the same on input.
Largest context: GPT-4.1 Nano 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-2.0-Mini

0.05¢

GPT-4.1 Nano

0.05¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Seed-2.0-Mini

0.09¢

GPT-4.1 Nano

0.09¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Seed-2.0-Mini

3.9¢

GPT-4.1 Nano

2¢

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Seed-2.0-Mini

0.45¢

GPT-4.1 Nano

0.45¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Seed-2.0-Mini

$0.06

GPT-4.1 Nano

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

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

80% Input20% Output

Seed-2.0-Mini

GPT-4.1 Nano

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

Pricing

Seed-2.0-Mini

GPT-4.1 Nano

Input / 1M tokens

$0.115

Output / 1M tokens

$0.460

Cached input / 1M

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$0.029

Web search

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1.1¢ / search

Specs

Seed-2.0-Mini

GPT-4.1 Nano

Provider

ByteDance Seed

OpenAI

Released

5 months ago

April 2025

Context window

262K

1.05M

Max output

131K

33K

Input

Text, Images, and Video

Images, Text, and Files

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

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2024-06-30

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

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GPT-4.1 Nano

OpenAI

0.05¢

for this task

50% input · 50% 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 5,434 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GPT-4.1 Nano has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price they are identical: about 0.09¢ for a typical task each.

If you want to watch the model think, Seed-2.0-Mini shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

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 →GPT-4.1 Nano pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Seed-2.0-Mini or GPT-4.1 Nano?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out) they cost the same — about 0.09¢ each. Compare them on context and capabilities instead.

Which has the largest context window?

GPT-4.1 Nano — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Seed-2.0-Mini and GPT-4.1 Nano 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 0.19¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.19¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.