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title: "ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/bytedance-seed__seed-1.6/
description: "ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6: $0.250/M in, $2.00/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 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6: $0.250/M in, $2.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Seed 1.6

ByteDance · released 2025-12-23

 $0.688 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 | $0.250 /M |
| --- | --- |
| 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 |
| --- | --- |
| 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 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.