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title: "ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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description: "ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash: $0.075/M in, $0.300/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash: $0.075/M in, $0.300/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Seed 1.6 Flash

ByteDance · released 2025-12-23

 $0.131 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.075 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.300 /M |

**Past 128,000 tokens the price changes.** Input goes to $0.100/M (1.33×) and output to $0.800/M. The headline rate does not apply to a long-context workload.

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 33K |
| Input modes | image, text, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| 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...