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.
Modalities
In / Out Price
$0.25 / $2per 1M
Context
262K
Released
Dec 23, 2025
This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
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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.
Seed 1.6 costs $0.25/M input tokens and $2.00/M output tokens.
Seed 1.6 has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 32,768 completion tokens.
Yes. Seed 1.6 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Seed 1.6 accepts images, text and video as input and returns text.
Seed 2.1 Turbo, Seed-2.0-Code, Seed-2.0-Lite and 2 more are other text models from ByteDance Seed.
Seed 1.6 was released on December 23, 2025.
| $0.25 | $2.00 | 0.74s | 31 tps |
Throughput
31tok/s
P50, best across providers
Latency
0.74s
P50, best provider
100.00%
100.00%
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.