How much does Seed 1.6 cost?

Seed 1.6 costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. For a typical conversation (~2,000 tokens), that's approximately $0.003 per message.

What benchmarks has Seed 1.6 been tested on?

Seed 1.6 has not been benchmarked yet. Scores are added as benchmarks are published.

Is Seed 1.6 open source?

No, Seed 1.6 is a proprietary model by ByteDance.

How does Seed 1.6 compare to 3b De Ft Research_release?

Seed 1.6 has an average score of 0.0 while 3b De Ft Research_release scores 0.0. 3b De Ft Research_release slightly outperforms Seed 1.6 overall. See full comparison →

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Seed 1.6

Name: Seed 1.6
Price: 0.25 USD
Author: ByteDance

by ByteDance · Released Dec 2025

Multimodal

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Context

262K tokens (~131 books)

Input $/1M

$0.25

Output $/1M

$2.00

Type

multimodal

License

Proprietary

Benchmarks

0 tested

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About

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.

No benchmark data available yet.

Model Family · ByteDance Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6Dec 2025

$0.25/M in262Kctx

Seed 1.6 FlashDec 2025

$0.07/M in(-0.17)262Kctx

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