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.
Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$2.00
Context
262.1K
AA Intelligence
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Pricing
via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24$0.25
input / 1M
$2.00
output / 1M
—
cached input / 1M
$2.25
1M in + 1M out
Price tiers
- Above 128K prompt tokens: input $0.50/M, output $4.00/M (2× base)
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Providers
- 1
- Cheapest provider
- Seed · $0.25 / $2.00
- Best throughput
- —
- AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
- — / — / —
✓ Tool calling
✓ Reasoning
✓ Structured outputs
✓ Image input
✗ File input
✗ Audio input
✗ Prompt caching
Price history
tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)Current: $0.25 input · $2.00 output per 1M tokens
Providers
1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics| Provider | Quant | Context | Input | Output | Uptime | Tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | fp8 | 262.1K | $0.25 | $2.00 | — | — |
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.
Specifications
- Organisation
- bytedance-seed
- Released on OpenRouter
- 2025-12-23
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Input
- image, text, video
- Output
- text
- Tokenizer
- Other
- Moderated by provider
- No
- Scheduled retirement
- 2026-11-11
- OpenRouter id
- bytedance-seed/seed-1.6
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Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.