ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash

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Intelligence (ELO)1422Chatbot Arena Verified

Max Context Limit262,144Max Out: 32,768 tokens

Prompt CachingStandardNo Cache Discount

Standard API / 1M$0.38🧠 Deep Reasoner

Model Capabilities & Contract SLAs

Drafting
Classification
Reasoning
Coding & Logic
Fictional
🧠 Extended Test-Time Reasoning

Seed 1.6 Flash is an ultra-fast multimodal deep thinking model by ByteDance Seed, supporting both text and visual understanding. It features a 256k context window and can generate outputs of...

Granular Pricing Matrix

Input Tokens (Standard Prompt)$0.07 / 1M

Output Tokens (Completion)$0.30 / 1M

Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 10/2/2026

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