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Seed 1.6

SeedCurrent
byByteDanceByteDance(enterprise)
Released December 23, 2025
API DocsPlayground
Context262.1K tokens
Price (In / Out)$0.25/M / $2.00/M
CategoryMultimodal LLM
Max Output32.8K tokens

About Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6 is a multimodal llm from ByteDance. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Available from $0.25/M input tokens.

Capabilities

textvisionvideocode

Input Modalities

imagetextvideo

Output Modalities

text

Technical Details

API Identifier
bytedance-seed/seed-1.6
Category
Multimodal LLM
Context Window
262,144 tokens
Max Output Tokens
32,768 tokens

Tags

multimodalvideobudget-friendlylong-context

Pricing

Token pricing for Seed 1.6 API usage.

Input Tokens

$0.25/M

per million tokens

Output Tokens

$2.00/M

per million tokens

Pricing Calculator

Input cost$0.25
Output cost$1.00
Estimated monthly cost$1.25

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