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Seed 1.6 vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Compare Seed 1.6 from bytedance-seed and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct 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 vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: side-by-side summary

Seed 1.6 and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct 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 VL 8B Instruct, from Qwen, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.117/M tokens input, $0.455/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window
  • Seed 1.6: 262,144 tokens
  • Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: 262,144 tokens
Price
  • Seed 1.6: $0.25/M tokens input, $2/M tokens output
  • Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: $0.117/M tokens input, $0.455/M tokens output
Provided by
  • Seed 1.6: bytedance-seed
  • Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: Qwen
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Seed 1.6
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Overview

Seed 1.6
Author
bytedance-seed
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Author
Qwen
Seed 1.6
Context length
262Ktokens
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Context length
262Ktokens
Seed 1.6
Reasoning
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Reasoning
Seed 1.6
Input modalities
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Input modalities
Seed 1.6
Output modalities
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Output modalities
model details, providers and pricing
model details, providers and pricing
Seed 1.6
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct