Seed 1.6
ByteDance Seed model for long-context reasoning, instruction following, and tool-assisted tasks
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 3 providers3 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ofox volcengine/doubao-seed-1-6 | Gateway | $0.12 | $0.29 | $0.023 | — | 256,000 | 64,000 | |
| OpenRouter bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 | Gateway | $0.25 tiered >128K: $0.50 | $2.00 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway bytedance/seed-1.6 | Cloud | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.05 | — | 256,000 | 32,000 |
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.
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Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
1 / 3 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
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