Seedream 4.5 vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: side-by-side summary

Seedream 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Seedream 4.5, from bytedance-seed, has a 4,096-token context window and is priced from $0.04/image on OpenRouter.

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct, from Qwen, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.13/M tokens input, $0.52/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Seedream 4.5: 4,096 tokens
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: 262,144 tokens

Price

• Seedream 4.5: from $0.04/image
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: $0.13/M tokens input, $0.52/M tokens output

Provided by

• Seedream 4.5: bytedance-seed
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: Qwen

• Seedream 4.5 model details, providers and pricing
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct model details, providers and pricing