Head to head
BY vs QW For light moderate heavy
Verdict · measured basis
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs $0.0001 per solved task against
Seed-2.0-Mini at $0.0014 — ▼ 11x cheaper .
Over 200 tasks that is $0.26 a month.
On output token price alone Seed-2.0-Mini looks 1.1x cheaper. The ranking reverses once you divide by pass rate — the cheaper tokens do not win the task.
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Verified pricing, pass rate and cost per solved task for Seed-2.0-Mini and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Figure Seed-2.0-Mini Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Input $/Mtok $0.1 $0.117 Output $/Mtok $0.4 $0.455 Cached input $/Mtok $0.1 $0.117 Pass rate 94% 61% Cost per solved task $0.0014 measured $0.0001 measured Cost per month $0.28 $0.02
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Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct (measured, $0.0001 per solved task), Seed-2.0-Mini (measured, $0.0014 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.001 $0.01 $0.1 $1 $10 $100 TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct · MEASURED · $0.0001 per solved task $0.02 Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct MEASURED Seed-2.0-Mini · MEASURED · $0.0014 per solved task $0.28 Seed-2.0-Mini MEASURED Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct (measured, $0.0001 per solved task), Seed-2.0-Mini (measured, $0.0014 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.001 $0.01 $0.1 $1 $10 $100 TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct · MEASURED · $0.0001 per solved task $0.02 Seed-2.0-Mini · MEASURED · $0.0014 per solved task $0.28 — Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct · MEASURED — Seed-2.0-Mini · MEASURED Solid measured · dashed modeled · dotted stale. The gap is the verdict.
Solvency Bench (solvency.dev) — first-party measurement · verified 2026-08-26 · prices from each provider's pricing page; measured rows ignore the tier · Methodology · All models at these settings