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GPT-6 AstravsSeed1.8

GPT-6 Astra and Seed1.8 do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Seed1.8 is 26.7x cheaper per token. GPT-6 Astra has the larger context window (1.1M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Seed1.8
26.7x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-6 Astra
1.1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
OpenAI · ByteDance Seed
GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI · released 2026-09-03
textvision
Context
1.1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$10 ↗
Output /1M
$50 ↗
Cached /1M
$1
Scores
39 · 9 core
Seed1.8
ByteDance Seed · released 2025-12-18
textvisionvideo
Context
256K
Max out
64K
Input /1M
$0.25 ↗
Output /1M
$2 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.05
Scores
16 · 6 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraSeed1.8ΔEdge
Reported by both · 0
No public benchmark is reported for both models yet.
Only GPT-6 Astra reports · 33
GPQA Diamond96% ↗not reported——
LMArena Elo1477.1 ↗not reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)64.7% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench 1.0.641.4% ↗not reported——
BALROG (BALROG)68.3% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)72% ↗epoch runnot reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)74.1% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)76.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)97.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)93.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)65.5% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)80% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)77.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)57.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)80.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)83% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)75.6% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)89.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)96.8% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)92.7% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.1227 ↗not reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1284.3 ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1787.7 ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)46.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)84% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)46.4% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)86.5% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified75.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)59.6% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench Science 0.164.6% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)15514.7 ↗not reported——
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)93.6% ↗not reported——
Only Seed1.8 reports · 16
SWE-bench Verifiednot reported72.9% ↗——
MMLU-Pronot reported84.9% ↗——
AIME-25not reported94.3% ↗——
ARC-AGI-1not reported67.9% ↗——
BFCL-v4not reported57.2% ↗——
BrowseComp-ennot reported67.6% ↗——
GPQA-Diamondnot reported83.8% ↗——
HLE (text-only, agentic search)not reported40.9% ↗——
LiveCodeBench(v6)not reported79.5% ↗——
MM-BrowseCompnot reported46.3% ↗——
Multi-SWE-Benchnot reported42% ↗——
MultiChallengenot reported66.7% ↗——
OSWorld-Verified (XLANG)not reported61.9% ↗——
Terminal Bench 2.0not reported45.2% ↗——
WideSearchnot reported63.8% ↗——
τ2-Benchnot reported72% ↗——
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 GPT-6 Astra 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

SpecGPT-6 AstraSeed1.8Edge
Context window1.1M tokens256K tokensGPT-6 Astra
Max output128K tokens64K tokensGPT-6 Astra
Input price / 1M$10 ↗$0.25 ↗Seed1.8
Output price / 1M$50 ↗$2 ↗Seed1.8
Cached input / 1M$1 ↗$0.05 ↗Seed1.8
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$60$2.25Seed1.8
Modalitiestext · visiontext · vision · videoSeed1.8
Released2026-09-032025-12-18—
Cited benchmark scores3916—
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