Seed 1.6 Flash vs Lyria 3 Clip Preview vs GLM 4.7 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash at $0.086 in and $0.345 out, Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 in and $0 out, and GLM 4.7 Flash at $0.069 in and $0.460 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Seed 1.6 Flash

ByteDance Seed

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.086 in · $0.345 out / 1M

262K context · released December 2025

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Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for a client proposal

$0 in · $0 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 4 months ago

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GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.069 in · $0.460 out / 1M

203K context · released 7 months ago

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Asking all three at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.14¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
Largest context: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Seed 1.6 Flash

0.03¢

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

GLM 4.7 Flash

0.04¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Seed 1.6 Flash

0.07¢

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

GLM 4.7 Flash

0.07¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Seed 1.6 Flash

2.2¢

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

GLM 4.7 Flash

1.3¢

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Seed 1.6 Flash

0.34¢

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

GLM 4.7 Flash

0.29¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Seed 1.6 Flash

3.2¢

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

GLM 4.7 Flash

needs 250K ctx

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Seed 1.6 Flash

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

GLM 4.7 Flash

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Seed 1.6 Flash

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

GLM 4.7 Flash

Input / 1M tokens

$0.086

$0.069

Output / 1M tokens

$0.345

$0.460

Cached input / 1M

—

$0.011

Specs

Seed 1.6 Flash

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

GLM 4.7 Flash

Provider

ByteDance Seed

Google

Z.ai

Released

December 2025

4 months ago

7 months ago

Context window

262K

1.05M

203K

Max output

33K

66K

16K

Input

Images, Text, and Video

Text and Images

Text

Output

Text

Text and Audio

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

—

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Seed 1.6 Flash

ByteDance Seed

0.03¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for this task

Full pricing →

GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

0.04¢

for this task

38% input · 62% output

Full pricing →

All 3, same prompt and context: 0.07¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 7,012 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Lyria 3 Clip Preview has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Lyria 3 Clip Preview is the cheapest of the three on a typical task, at about free.

For images or files, Seed 1.6 Flash and Lyria 3 Clip Preview can read them directly; GLM 4.7 Flash is text-only.

If you want to watch the model think, Seed 1.6 Flash and GLM 4.7 Flash show reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all three, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Seed 1.6 Flash pricing →Lyria 3 Clip Preview pricing →GLM 4.7 Flash pricing →Try other combinations →

Questions, answered

Which is cheapest — Seed 1.6 Flash, Lyria 3 Clip Preview, or GLM 4.7 Flash?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Lyria 3 Clip Preview at free; Seed 1.6 Flash at 0.07¢; GLM 4.7 Flash at 0.07¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Lyria 3 Clip Preview — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Seed 1.6 Flash, Lyria 3 Clip Preview, and GLM 4.7 Flash side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 3, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.14¢ for a typical task.

Ask all three at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.14¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.