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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.

262,144 Context
32,768 Max output
$0.25 / 1M Prompt price
2025-12-23 Created
01 / Snapshot

Pricing, context, modalities, and parameters.

Model Radar detail pages stay neutral and operator-readable: core metadata first, then workflow fit.

Provider Bytedance Seed Input modalities image, text, video
Output modalities text Prompt price $0.25 / 1M
Completion price $2.00 / 1M Request price N/A
Context length 262,144 Max completion tokens 32,768
Supported parameters frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_p
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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.

Deep analysis Cross-modal work Long context High-volume usage vision tool-capable long-context low-cost
03 / Colophon

Routes and exits.

Each model page stays simple: overview, compare, related models, then back to the public hub.