ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Large memoryVisionDeep thinkingTool use

ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 is a multimodal model for multimodal reasoning and analysis. It combines multimodal input handling and deep reasoning and planning with a 262K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for multimodal reasoning and analysis when quality, speed, and cost matters.

Input

$0.25/1M

Output

$2.00/1M

Cached

$0.02/1M

Batch

$0.10/1M

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Technical specifications

Seed 1.6 at a glance.

Memory

262,144

tokens

Max reply

32,768

tokens

Memory tier

Large

an entire book or large codebase

Tokenizer

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Released

Nov 2025

Training cutoff

Aug 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Seed 1.6

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Seed 1.6 costs roughly $99 per month. Input is $0.25 /1M tokens and output is $2.00 /1M tokens.
Seed 1.6 has a 262,144-token context window (large memory — an entire book or large codebase). That means you can fit about 49,152 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Seed 1.6 supports understanding images, deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Seed 1.6 was released in November 2025, with training data cut off around August 2025.
Models in a similar class include Seed-2.0-Lite, Seed-2.0-Mini, Seed 1.6 Flash. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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