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Grok 4.6 vs Seedance 2.5

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Grok 4.6
xai/grok-4.6
Seedance 2.5
bytedance/seedance-2.5
Provider
xAI
ByteDance
Family
Grok 4
Modality
text
video
Context window
500,000 tok
Max output
32,768 tok
Released
2026-08-12
2026-08-07
License
Proprietary
Open-weight
Input price
$1.00 /1M
Output price
$1.00 /1M
Per output second
$0.231 /sec
Tools
Streaming
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Batch API
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Grok 4.6
xai/grok-4.6
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xAI's Grok 4.6, a flagship reasoning model for coding, agentic tasks, and visual work. Accepts text and image inputs, and supports function calling and structured outputs.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
Seedance 2.5
bytedance/seedance-2.5
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ByteDance's next-generation video model with a unified multimodal reference-to-video architecture. Generates video from text, up to 30 reference images, 10 reference videos, and 10 reference audio clips — including audio-only input with no image or video required. Supports first/last-frame image-to-video, video editing, video extension, intelligent duration (including automatic selection), and adaptive aspect ratio.

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
Use cases
PromosDemosStoryboards

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Grok 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-4.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Seedance 2.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance/seedance-2.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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