ByteDance Seed

Seed 1.6

bytedance-seed/seed-1.6

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Seed 1.6

reasoning tools

ByteDance Seed bytedance-seed/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: 262K
Max output: 33K
Released: Dec 23, 2025
Modalities: imagetextvideo

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targets.yamlyaml

# targets.yaml - declare a target that runs Seed 1.6
targets:
  - id: seed-1-6
    kind: llm
    name: Seed 1.6
    metadata:
      model: bytedance-seed/seed-1.6          # links the target to this catalogue entry
    capabilities:
      domains: [general]
      supports_tools: true
      context_window: 262144
    cost:
      usd_per_1k_tokens: 0.001125

Price among ByteDance Seed models

Input list price per million tokens; Seed 1.6 is the 3rd cheapest of 6 listed.

1
Seed 1.6 Flash
$0.07
2
Seed-2.0-Mini
$0.10
3
Seed 1.6
$0.25
4
Seed-2.0-Lite
$0.25
5
Seed 2.1 Turbo
$0.50
6
Seed-2.0-Code
$0.50

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