Overview
Seed 1.6 Flash vs Sonar Pro Search: side-by-side summary
Seed 1.6 Flash and Sonar Pro Search are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.
Seed 1.6 Flash, from bytedance-seed, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.075/M tokens input, $0.30/M tokens output on OpenRouter.
Sonar Pro Search, from Perplexity, has a 200,000-token context window and is priced at $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output on OpenRouter.
- Context window
- Seed 1.6 Flash: 262,144 tokens
- Sonar Pro Search: 200,000 tokens
- Price
- Seed 1.6 Flash: $0.075/M tokens input, $0.30/M tokens output
- Sonar Pro Search: $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output
- Provided by
- Seed 1.6 Flash: bytedance-seed
- Sonar Pro Search: Perplexity