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Seed 1.6 (250615) (ByteDance)
bytedance·bytedance/seed-1-6-250615·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 $0.05 · LLM Gateway
Lowest paid$0.25 / $2.00
LLM Gateway Gateway
Context256,000
Output limit256,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImage
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2025-06-25 / 2025-06-25
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Gateway | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | $0.05 | — | 256,000 | 256,000 |
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.
Your usage cost
1LLM Gateway$126.00
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 = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = high
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $0.25Output list $2.00Min blended $0.688
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-21). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.