Seed 1.6 pricing
Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window. Live index: 1 priced offer. Best input $0.250 per million tokens from Openrouter. Best output $2.00 per million tokens from Openrouter.
Pricing across providers
All figures are list prices per million tokens unless a column says otherwise. 1 offer is listed for Seed 1.6. Best input in this view: Openrouter.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cached input | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
O Openrouter | $0.250 | $2.00 | — | — |
Input vs output · 1M tokens
Cost calculator
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0.100000¢ / req
Model specifications
Context length, caps, and capability flags for Seed 1.6. Values follow the main provider (Bytedance) record in our index.
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Vision (images)
- Yes
- Tool / function calling
- Yes
- Streaming
- Yes
- Released
- Dec 2025
- Primary provider
- Bytedance
- Model family
- N/A
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Frequently asked questions
Read these after the table if you want plain language around Seed 1.6 rates. The short model note from our index: Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.
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