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Claude Sonnet 4.5vs
Seed1.8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Seed1.8 is 8x cheaper per token. Seed1.8 has the larger context window (256K tokens).
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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads
Cheaper per token
Seed1.8
8x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Seed1.8
256K tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · ByteDance Seed
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic · released 2025-09-29
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 34 only Claude Sonnet 4.5 · 14 only Seed1.8| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Seed1.8 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.2% ↗ | 72.9% ↗ | +4.3 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| OSWorld-Verified (XLANG) | 62.9% ↗ | 61.9% ↗ | +1 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 reports · 34 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 83.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 84.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 17.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1456.6 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 13.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 12% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| EBR-bench (Epoch AI run) | 2.4% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 2.4% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 23.9% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA | 1276 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GSO Opt@1 (GSO) | 12.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 33.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1393 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MATH Level 5 (Epoch AI run) | 97.7% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 43.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 89.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 63.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 68.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 17% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 61.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 77.8% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 36.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 54.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 30.7% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 71.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Airline (Sierra) | 72% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra) | 25.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 86.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Retail (Sierra) | 72.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 98% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Telecom (Sierra) | 84.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 51% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 3838.74 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | 47.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Seed1.8 reports · 14 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 84.9% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME-25 | not reported | 94.3% ↗ | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | not reported | 67.9% ↗ | — | — |
| BFCL-v4 | not reported | 57.2% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp-en | not reported | 67.6% ↗ | — | — |
| GPQA-Diamond | not reported | 83.8% ↗ | — | — |
| HLE (text-only, agentic search) | not reported | 40.9% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench(v6) | not reported | 79.5% ↗ | — | — |
| MM-BrowseComp | not reported | 46.3% ↗ | — | — |
| Multi-SWE-Bench | not reported | 42% ↗ | — | — |
| MultiChallenge | not reported | 66.7% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal Bench 2.0 | not reported | 45.2% ↗ | — | — |
| WideSearch | not reported | 63.8% ↗ | — | — |
| τ2-Bench | not reported | 72% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 4.5 minus Seed1.8 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Seed1.8 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 256K tokens | Seed1.8 |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 64K tokens | Tie |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $0.25 ↗ | Seed1.8 |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Seed1.8 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.05 ↗ | Seed1.8 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $2.25 | Seed1.8 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision · video | Seed1.8 |
| Released | 2025-09-29 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 43 | 16 | — |
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