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ByteDance Seed models

6 models with the vendor's list prices per million tokens. None answers on this deployment yet - connect your own provider to route to them.

Models

0 available here

Cheapest (blended)

$0.13

Seed 1.6 Flash

Median list price

$0.69

3:1 input to output per 1M tokens

Strongest

no published benchmarks

Every ByteDance Seed model

Newest first. Prices are the vendor's published rates per million tokens; click a model for the full specification.

Model	Released	Context	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Intelligence	Capabilities
Seed 2.1 Turbobytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo	Aug 12, 2026	262K	$0.50	$2.50	-	reasoning tools
Seed-2.0-Codebytedance-seed/seed-2.0-code	Aug 12, 2026	262K	$0.50	$3.00	-	reasoning tools
Seed-2.0-Litebytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite	Mar 10, 2026	262K	$0.25	$2.00	-	reasoning tools
Seed-2.0-Minibytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini	Feb 26, 2026	262K	$0.10	$0.40	-	reasoning tools
Seed 1.6 Flashbytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash	Dec 23, 2025	262K	$0.07	$0.30	-	reasoning tools
Seed 1.6bytedance-seed/seed-1.6	Dec 23, 2025	262K	$0.25	$2.00	-	reasoning tools

Frequently asked

What is the cheapest ByteDance Seed model?: Seed 1.6 Flash at $0.07 per 1M input tokens and $0.30 per 1M output tokens (vendor list price).
Which ByteDance Seed model has the largest context window?: Seed 2.1 Turbo accepts 262K tokens of context.
How do I route to ByteDance Seed models with OpenSmartRoute?: Declare a target in targets.yaml with metadata.model set to the catalogue id (for example bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo); the router scores it against every other target on cost, quality, latency and your policies for each request.

Route ByteDance Seed with everything else

OpenSmartRoute picks the cheapest model that meets your quality bar per request, so a ByteDance Seed flagship handles hard prompts while small models take the rest. Price a workload or try a routing decision live.

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ByteDance Seed answers when it is the best answer for the request - and only then.

The prices on this page are the vendor's own list prices. Behind the router they become one column in a scorecard: for every request the candidates from ByteDance Seed are weighed against every other vendor on cost, quality prior, latency and your policy, and the trace records why the winner won. Bring your own ByteDance Seed key or buy by the token here; the decision is the same.

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For the business

What it does for the vendor strategy.

One URL, every vendor
No vendor lock-in
Point your OpenAI-compatible client at one address; add, swap or retire providers in the catalogue without touching application code.
Every vendor side by side
89% less
Lower cost per request
On the 150-prompt benchmark the router spent 89% less than sending every prompt to the reference model, and the judged quality went up, not down.
Read the benchmark
Self-hosting is free
Open source, Apache-2.0
The router is a library, a sidecar or a control plane you can run yourself, so the exit is always open.
What is open

Will this lock us into another vendor?: No. The router is Apache-2.0 open source, your provider keys stay yours, and the API is OpenAI-compatible, so leaving is a change of base URL.
How much can we save on our LLM bill?: On the public benchmark the router saved 89% against sending everything to the reference model. Import last month's provider bill on the bill page and the estimate is computed on your own traffic before you change a line of code.
How do we compare AI gateways and routers?: The compare pages score each product against the same documented capabilities and say when the review was done; the benchmark page shows measured cost and quality, including the cases the router lost.

Model

Released

Context

Input / 1M

Output / 1M

Intelligence

Capabilities

Seed 2.1 Turbobytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo

Aug 12, 2026

262K

$0.50

$2.50

reasoning tools

Seed-2.0-Codebytedance-seed/seed-2.0-code

Aug 12, 2026

262K

$0.50

$3.00

reasoning tools

Seed-2.0-Litebytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite

Mar 10, 2026

262K

$0.25

$2.00

reasoning tools

Seed-2.0-Minibytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini

Feb 26, 2026

262K

$0.10

$0.40

reasoning tools

Seed 1.6 Flashbytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash

Dec 23, 2025

262K

$0.07

$0.30

reasoning tools

Seed 1.6bytedance-seed/seed-1.6

Dec 23, 2025

262K

$0.25

$2.00

reasoning tools

Frequently asked

What is the cheapest ByteDance Seed model?

Seed 1.6 Flash at $0.07 per 1M input tokens and $0.30 per 1M output tokens (vendor list price).

Which ByteDance Seed model has the largest context window?

Seed 2.1 Turbo accepts 262K tokens of context.

How do I route to ByteDance Seed models with OpenSmartRoute?

Declare a target in targets.yaml with metadata.model set to the catalogue id (for example bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo); the router scores it against every other target on cost, quality, latency and your policies for each request.

ByteDance Seed answers when it is the best answer for the request - and only then.

ByteDance Seed models

Every ByteDance Seed model

Frequently asked

Route ByteDance Seed with everything else

ByteDance Seed answers when it is the best answer for the request - and only then.

What it does for the vendor strategy.

No vendor lock-in

Lower cost per request

Open source, Apache-2.0

ByteDance Seed models

Every ByteDance Seed model

Frequently asked

Route ByteDance Seed with everything else

ByteDance Seed answers when it is the best answer for the request - and only then.

What it does for the vendor strategy.

No vendor lock-in

Lower cost per request

Open source, Apache-2.0