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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6

BYTEDANCE-SEED Developer Architecture Profile

OpenRouter ↗HuggingFace ↗
Intelligence (ELO)1120Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context262,144Tokens
API Cost / 1M$2.25Blended Prompt + Completion

Model Capabilities

    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.

    Granular Pricing Matrix

    Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.25 / 1M
    Output Tokens (Completion)$2.00 / 1M

    Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026

    Evaluate Competitors

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