Seed 1.6 Flash vs gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Seed 1.6 Flash at $0.086 in and $0.345 out and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at $0.086 in and $0.345 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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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.086 in · $0.345 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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

At a glance

All 2 cost the same on input.
Largest context: Seed 1.6 Flash at 262K tokens — about 370 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¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.03¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Seed 1.6 Flash

0.07¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.07¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Seed 1.6 Flash

2.2¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

needs 155K ctx

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Seed 1.6 Flash

0.34¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.34¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Seed 1.6 Flash

3.2¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

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

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

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

Pricing

Seed 1.6 Flash

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Input / 1M tokens

$0.086

Output / 1M tokens

$0.345

Cached input / 1M

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$0.043

Specs

Seed 1.6 Flash

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Provider

ByteDance Seed

OpenAI

Released

December 2025

October 2025

Context window

262K

131K

Max output

33K

66K

Input

Images, Text, and Video

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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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 →

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI

0.03¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.07¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 7,246 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Seed 1.6 Flash has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price they are identical: about 0.07¢ for a typical task each.

For images or files, Seed 1.6 Flash can read them directly; gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is text-only.

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

Seed 1.6 Flash pricing →gpt-oss-safeguard-20b pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Seed 1.6 Flash or gpt-oss-safeguard-20b?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out) they cost the same — about 0.07¢ each. Compare them on context and capabilities instead.

Which has the largest context window?

Seed 1.6 Flash — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run Seed 1.6 Flash and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.14¢ for a typical task.

Ask both 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.