Seed 2.1 Turbo vs Qwen3.8 Max: side-by-side summary

Seed 2.1 Turbo and Qwen3.8 Max are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Seed 2.1 Turbo, from bytedance-seed, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.50/M tokens input, $2.50/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Qwen3.8 Max, from Qwen, has a 1,000,000-token context window and is priced at $2/M tokens input, $6/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Seed 2.1 Turbo: 262,144 tokens
• Qwen3.8 Max: 1,000,000 tokens

Price

• Seed 2.1 Turbo: $0.50/M tokens input, $2.50/M tokens output
• Qwen3.8 Max: $2/M tokens input, $6/M tokens output

Provided by

• Seed 2.1 Turbo: bytedance-seed
• Qwen3.8 Max: Qwen

• Seed 2.1 Turbo model details, providers and pricing
• Qwen3.8 Max model details, providers and pricing