Seed 1.6
ByteDance's new multimodal deep-thinking model, supporting both text and visual inputs with enhanced reasoning capabilities.
text + image → text · made by ByteDance
Sold by 6 ways
| Seller | Lane | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| ByteDance api | batch | $0.06per Mtok in$0.15per Mtok out$0.024per Mtok cachedvolcengine.com · read 2026-08-25 |
| ByteDance api | standard | $0.12per Mtok in$0.3per Mtok out$0.024per Mtok cachedvolcengine.com · read 2026-08-25 |
| AtlasCloud aggregator | standard | $0.25per Mtok in$2per Mtok out$0.05per Mtok cachedapi.atlascloud.ai · read 2026-09-20 |
| Nous Research aggregator | standard | $0.25per Mtok in$2per Mtok outinference-api.nousresearch.com · read 2026-09-12 |
| OpenRouter aggregator | standard | $0.25per Mtok in$2per Mtok outopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-24 |
| Vercel AI Gateway aggregator | standard | $0.25per Mtok in$2per Mtok out$0.05per Mtok cachedai-gateway.vercel.sh · read 2026-08-25 |
About
Seed 1.6 — a text model from ByteDance, sold by 5 companies from $0.12 in and $0.3 out per million tokens.
It takes text and images and returns text, with a context window of 262,144 tokens. It was published in June 2025, trained on material up to October 2024. Its sellers say it can reason step by step and call a tool. The catalogue files it under chat. Five companies sell it. The cheapest is $0.12 in and $0.3 out per million tokens at ByteDance. Beside the standard rate there is a batch lane.
Every current figure
- Maker
- ByteDance
- Register
- model
- Takes
- text + image
- Returns
- text
- Context
- 262,144 tokens
- Longest answer
- 256,000 tokens
- Published
- June 2025
- Knowledge to
- October 2024
- Licence
- not read
- Sellers
- 5
- Price
- $0.12 in and $0.3 out per million tokens — ByteDance
Known as 6 names
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