ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6
by ByteDance SeedByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 is a large language model from ByteDance Seed. It costs $0.250 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. Its context window is 262K tokens.
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- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.250
- Output / 1M tokens
- $2.00
- Cached input / 1M
- -
- Context window
- 262K
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Who serves it cheapest
1 hosts serve Seed 1.6. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Throughput | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SeedCheapestfp8 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K | - | 100.0% |
About Seed 1.6
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.
Specifications
| Model ID | bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 |
|---|---|
| Provider | ByteDance Seed |
| Context window | 262K tokens |
| Max output | 33K tokens |
| Input modalities | image, text, video |
| Output modalities | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | - |
| Open weights | No |
| Released | December 23, 2025 |
Cheaper alternatives
Models that cost less than Seed 1.6 while keeping at least half its context window and every input modality it supports.
Frequently asked
How much does ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 cost?
$0.250 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6?
262K tokens, with up to 33K tokens of output per request.