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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team.

ByteDance SeedSeed 1.6
bytedance-seed/seed-1.6
2025-12-23text+image+video->text
Input
$0.25
per 1M tokens
Output
$2
per 1M tokens
Context
262K
tokens it reads
Max output
33K
tokens it writes
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.
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openrouter.ai/bytedance-seed/seed-1.6
References (1)
  1. Stored model catalog — Nov 5, 2026
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Model id
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Name
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6
Description
Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team.
Family
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Reasoning default enabled
null
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