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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6
bytedance-seed·bytedance-seed/seed-1.6·GA·Closed·seed series
Multimodal reasoning model for visual analysis, planning, and tool use
At a glance
Reference price$0.25 / $2.00 per 1M
Cache read — · Kilo Gateway
Lowest paid$0.25 / $2.00
Kilo Gateway Gateway
Context262,144
Output limit32,768
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
ImageTextVideo
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2025-12-23 / 2025-12-23
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 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | — | — | 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
1Kilo Gateway$150.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = high
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended