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Seed 1.6 Flash
bytedance-seed·bytedance-seed/seed-1-6-flash·GA·Closed·seed series
Low-latency ByteDance Seed model for high-throughput chat, extraction, and lightweight tool use
At a glance
Reference price$0.075 / $0.30 per 1M
Cache read — · OpenRouter
Lowest paid$0.03 / $0.22
Ofox Gateway · 2.5× spread
Context262,144
⚠ Providers report 256,000–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit32,768
Capabilities
Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
ImageTextVideo
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2025-08-28 / 2025-08-28
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 2 providers2 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Your usage cost
1Ofox$13.92
2OpenRouter$30.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $0.075Output list $0.30Min blended $0.077
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-15). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.