AI model · ByteDance Seed
Seed 1.6
Model ID: bytedance-seed/seed-1.6
- Input
- $0.25 per 1M tokens
- Output
- $2 per 1M tokens
- Context
- 262K tokens at once
- Max output
- 33K tokens per reply
- Released
- 23 Dec 2025 ByteDance Seed
What it can do
- YesReasoning
- YesTool calling
- YesImage input
- NoOpen weights
- NoFree to use
Takes image, text, video; gives text.
How its listing describes it
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.
Sources
- ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 on OpenRouter — read 2 Oct 2026