ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash

BYTEDANCE-SEED Developer Architecture Profile

Intelligence (ELO)1422Chatbot Arena Verified

Max Context262,144Tokens

API Cost / 1M$0.38Blended Prompt + Completion

Model Capabilities

Drafting
Classification
Coding & Logic
Fictional

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 (Prompt)$0.07 / 1M

Output Tokens (Completion)$0.30 / 1M

Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 4/30/2026

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