Low-latency ByteDance Seed model for high-throughput chat, extraction, and lightweight tool use
Seed 1.6 Flash by bytedance-seed is offered by 3 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.075 per 1M input tokens and $0.30 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Volcengine Ark at $0.022 / $0.223 per 1M, about 3.4× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
The context window is 262,144 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 256,000 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports tool use and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and Video. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volcengine Ark doubao-seed-1-6-flash-250828 | Gateway | $0.022 tiered >32K: $0.045 · >128K: $0.089 | $0.223 | $0.0044 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| Ofox volcengine/doubao-seed-1-6-flash | Gateway | $0.03 | $0.22 | $0.0043 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| OpenRouter bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash | Gateway | $0.075 tiered >128K: $0.10 | $0.30 | — | — | 262,144 | 32,768 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.