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Claude Sonnet 5 vs Seed 2.1 Turbo
Live dataset updated 9/10/2026, 6:20:44 AM UTC
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|---|---|---|
| ModelCap position | #20 | #18 |
| Index score | 75.8 | 76.8 |
| Evidence | Measured4 public benchmark observations across 4 boards | Estimatedglobal-corpus-prior over 185 held-out anchors (12%); launch card against 2 resolved peers on 3 rows (88%); exceeds every named peer on 1 of 3 rows; no cross-lab optimism probe available; shrunk 3.1 toward the measured corpus |
| Input / 1M | $2.00 | $0.50 |
| Output / 1M | $10.00 | $2.50 |
| Pricing status | fresh | fresh |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Providers | 5 | 1 |
| Weight access | API only | API only |
Decision facts
- Claude Sonnet 5 is #20; Seed 2.1 Turbo is #18 on the same current language board.
- Index scores are 75.8 for Claude Sonnet 5 and 76.8 for Seed 2.1 Turbo. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
- Evidence differs: Claude Sonnet 5 is Measured; Seed 2.1 Turbo is Estimated.
- Listed output price per 1M tokens is $10.00 for Claude Sonnet 5 and $2.50 for Seed 2.1 Turbo. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $9.00 for Claude Sonnet 5 versus $2.25 for Seed 2.1 Turbo. Seed 2.1 Turbo costs 75.0% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
- Published context is 1,000,000 tokens for Claude Sonnet 5 and 262,144 for Seed 2.1 Turbo.
- ModelCap currently lists 5 providers for Claude Sonnet 5 and 1 for Seed 2.1 Turbo.
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