Compare Seed 1.6 from bytedance-seed and Qwen3 Embedding 8B from Qwen 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 and Qwen3 Embedding 8B 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.
Qwen3 Embedding 8B, from Qwen, is priced at $0.01/M tokens on OpenRouter.
| Seed 1.6 | Qwen3 Embedding 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.25/M tokens | Not applicable |
| Output price | $2/M tokens | Not applicable |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens | Not applicable |
| Intelligence Index | Not available | Not available |
| Coding Index | Not available | Not available |
| Agentic Index | Not available | Not available |
| Latency (p50) | 0.61 s | Not available |
| Throughput (p50) | 31.5 tok/s | Not available |