Grok 4.6 vs Seed 2.1 Turbo: side-by-side summary

Grok 4.6 and Seed 2.1 Turbo are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Grok 4.6, from SpaceXAI, has a 500,000-token context window and is priced at $2/M tokens input, $6/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

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.

Context window

• Grok 4.6: 500,000 tokens
• Seed 2.1 Turbo: 262,144 tokens

Price

• Grok 4.6: $2/M tokens input, $6/M tokens output
• Seed 2.1 Turbo: $0.50/M tokens input, $2.50/M tokens output

Provided by

• Grok 4.6: SpaceXAI
• Seed 2.1 Turbo: bytedance-seed

• Grok 4.6 model details, providers and pricing
• Seed 2.1 Turbo model details, providers and pricing