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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash

BYTEDANCE-SEED Developer Architecture Profile

OpenRouter ↗HuggingFace ↗
Intelligence (ELO)1150Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context262,144Tokens
API Cost / 1M$0.38Blended Prompt + Completion

Model Capabilities

  • Drafting
  • Classification
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 up to 16k tokens.

Granular Pricing Matrix

Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.07 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$0.30 / 1M

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

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