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Seed 1.6 vs o4 Mini Deep Research

Compare Seed 1.6 from bytedance-seed and o4 Mini Deep Research from OpenAI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the OpenRouter API.

Seed 1.6 vs o4 Mini Deep Research: side-by-side summary

Seed 1.6 and o4 Mini Deep Research 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.

o4 Mini Deep Research, from OpenAI, has a 200,000-token context window and is priced by the provider serving it on OpenRouter.

Context window
  • Seed 1.6: 262,144 tokens
  • o4 Mini Deep Research: 200,000 tokens
Price
  • Seed 1.6: $0.25/M tokens input, $2/M tokens output
  • o4 Mini Deep Research: Pricing varies by provider
Provided by
  • Seed 1.6: bytedance-seed
  • o4 Mini Deep Research: OpenAI
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Seed 1.6
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o4 Mini Deep Research
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Seed 1.6
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o4 Mini Deep Research

Overview

Seed 1.6
Author
bytedance-seed
o4 Mini Deep Research
Author
OpenAI
Seed 1.6
Context length
262Ktokens
o4 Mini Deep Research
Context length
200Ktokens
Seed 1.6
Reasoning
o4 Mini Deep Research
Reasoning
Seed 1.6
Input modalities
o4 Mini Deep Research
Input modalities
Seed 1.6
Output modalities
o4 Mini Deep Research
Output modalities
model details, providers and pricing
model details, providers and pricing
Seed 1.6
o4 Mini Deep Research