Seed1.6 is a large language model from ByteDance Seed, released on June 25, 2025. It accepts text, image and video input.

When was Seed1.6 released?

ByteDance Seed released Seed1.6 on June 25, 2025.

How much does Seed1.6 cost?

Seed1.6 costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens through the ByteDance Seed API. Cached input costs $0.05 per 1M tokens. Prices are from ByteDance Seed's official pricing as of October 5, 2026.

What is Seed1.6's context window?

Seed1.6 has a 256K-token context window and can generate up to 32K output tokens.

Seed1.6

ByteDance Seed·Pending·Released 2025-06-25textvisionvideo

Context256k

Max output32k

Input / 1M$0.25 ↗

Output / 1M$2 ↗

Cached in$0.05

Benchmarks0

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Seed1.6 FAQ

What is Seed1.6?: Seed1.6 is a large language model from ByteDance Seed, released on June 25, 2025. It accepts text, image and video input.
When was Seed1.6 released?: ByteDance Seed released Seed1.6 on June 25, 2025.
How much does Seed1.6 cost?: Seed1.6 costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens through the ByteDance Seed API. Cached input costs $0.05 per 1M tokens. Prices are from ByteDance Seed's official pricing as of October 5, 2026.
What is Seed1.6's context window?: Seed1.6 has a 256K-token context window and can generate up to 32K output tokens.

Access Seed1.6 and every other model through one endpoint with automatic failover: Respan gateway.