Seed 1.6 vs Codestral Embed 2505: side-by-side summary

Seed 1.6 and Codestral Embed 2505 are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Seed 1.6, from bytedance-seed, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.25/M tokens input, $2/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Codestral Embed 2505, from Mistral AI, has a 8,192-token context window and is priced at $0.15/M tokens on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Seed 1.6: 262,144 tokens
• Codestral Embed 2505: 8,192 tokens

Price

• Seed 1.6: $0.25/M tokens input, $2/M tokens output
• Codestral Embed 2505: $0.15/M tokens

Provided by

• Seed 1.6: bytedance-seed
• Codestral Embed 2505: Mistral AI

• Seed 1.6 model details, providers and pricing
• Codestral Embed 2505 model details, providers and pricing