Fast and efficient with near-frontier intelligence.
ByteDance's flagship language model with top reasoning capabilities.
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Both Claude Haiku 4.5 and Seed 1.6 are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
Seed 1.6 has a lower blended cost. Claude Haiku 4.5: $1.00 input / $5.00 output. Seed 1.6: $0.25 input / $2.00 output.
Seed 1.6 has a larger context window: Claude Haiku 4.5 supports 200K tokens vs Seed 1.6 at 262K tokens.
Yes, both Claude Haiku 4.5 and Seed 1.6 support vision/image input.
Key differences: Seed 1.6 is significantly cheaper. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Haiku 4.5 and Seed 1.6 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.