Seed 1.6
ByteDance released 2025-12-23
$0.688 per million tokens, balanced
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 | $0.250/M |
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| Output | $2.00/M |
Past 128,000 tokens the price changes. Input goes to $0.500/M (2×) and output to $4.00/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 |
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| Max output | 33K |
| Input modes | image, text, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
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| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |
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.