As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 32B is 82% cheaper per million tokens than Seed 2.1 Turbo. Qwen3 32B is $0.10 / $0.44 per million input/output tokens versus Seed 2.1 Turbo at $0.50 / $2.50. Sources: https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/ and https://www.volcengine.com/product/doubao
Sources: Qwen pricing (https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/); ByteDance pricing (https://www.volcengine.com/product/doubao)
Qwen3 32B
Qwen
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.44
Seed 2.1 Turbo
ByteDance
Input
$0.50
Output
$2.50
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Qwen3 32BSeed 2.1 TurboVerdict
Qwen3 32B offers significantly lower pricing, while Seed 2.1 Turbo leads on benchmark performance. Your choice depends on whether cost efficiency or raw capability matters more for your use case.
As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 32B is 82% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Qwen3 32B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.44 per million output tokens ($0.54 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Seed 2.1 Turbo costs $0.50 / $2.50 per million tokens ($3.00 blended). Sources: https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/ and https://www.volcengine.com/product/doubao. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Qwen3 32B Qwen API pricing is $0.10 input and $0.44 output per million tokens via Qwen. Seed 2.1 Turbo ByteDance API pricing is $0.50 input and $2.50 output per million tokens via ByteDance. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Seed 2.1 Turbo has a published SWE-bench Pro score of 57%. Qwen3 32B does not have that eval on this page yet.
Qwen3 32B supports a 128K token context window, while Seed 2.1 Turbo supports 262K tokens. Seed 2.1 Turbo offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Seed 2.1 Turbo leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks versus Qwen3 32B's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Qwen3 32B and Seed 2.1 Turbo are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Qwen3 32B has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Qwen3 32B through Qwen and Seed 2.1 Turbo through ByteDance with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Qwen API pricing and ByteDance API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/ and https://www.volcengine.com/product/doubao. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Qwen3 32B supports up to 128K output tokens per request, while Seed 2.1 Turbo supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Qwen3 32B has a measured throughput of approximately 32.43 tokens/second. Throughput data for Seed 2.1 Turbo is not yet available. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Qwen3 32B or Seed 2.1 Turbo from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Qwen3 32B costs $0.10/M input and $0.44/M output. Seed 2.1 Turbo costs $0.50/M input and $2.50/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
The index
280 models across 33 providers. Search or jump to a lab — every model page stays linked here.
Next step
Auth, billing, and the API layer are already decided. Fork 8 finished AI apps, or have us build the first version with you.
