Seed-2.0-Code vs Mercury 2.5 Preview: side-by-side summary

Seed-2.0-Code and Mercury 2.5 Preview are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Seed-2.0-Code, from bytedance-seed, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.50/M tokens input, $3/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Mercury 2.5 Preview, from inception, has a 260,000-token context window and is priced at $0.04/M tokens input, $0.15/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Seed-2.0-Code: 262,144 tokens
• Mercury 2.5 Preview: 260,000 tokens

Price

• Seed-2.0-Code: $0.50/M tokens input, $3/M tokens output
• Mercury 2.5 Preview: $0.04/M tokens input, $0.15/M tokens output

Provided by

• Seed-2.0-Code: bytedance-seed
• Mercury 2.5 Preview: inception

• Seed-2.0-Code model details, providers and pricing
• Mercury 2.5 Preview model details, providers and pricing