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Seed 1.6 Flash
NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED
No independent LMArena score is published for this model.
Base context tier shown; inspect the complete context ladder below.
Lifecycle: retirement date · 11 Nov 2026
- Independent LMArena score
- Not independently rated
- Context window
- 262.14K
- Maximum output
- 32.77K
- Input modalities
- image, text, video
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.075 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $0.300 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
- Context tiers
- Tiered by context
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Seed: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.075/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.300/M |
| Cached input | Unknown/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
The headline rate does not apply to a long-context workload.
Complete context ladder · 1 tier
| More than 128,000 tokens | $0.100/M in (1.33×) $0.800/M out Unknown/M cached input Unknown/M cache write |
|---|
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedseed/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.075 | $0.300 | fp8 | 100.00% |
Independent scores
No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 262K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 32K |
| Input modes | image, text, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Retirement scheduled for 2026-11-11. Do not start new work on it.
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | unrated |
Seed 1.6 Flash is an ultra-fast multimodal deep thinking model by ByteDance Seed, supporting both text and visual understanding. It features a 256k context window and can generate outputs of...
Questions this page answers
What does Seed 1.6 Flash cost?
$0.075/M in, $0.300/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Seed 1.6 Flash have an independent quality score?
Seed 1.6 Flash has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.
What beats Seed 1.6 Flash?
Seed 1.6 Flash has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Seed 1.6 Flash?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Does a missing score mean Seed 1.6 Flash scored zero?
Unrated is not a score of zero.
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