ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6

bytedance-seed/seed-1.6

Created Dec 23, 2025262,144 context

Starting at $0.25/M input tokensStarting at $2/M output tokens

Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.

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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6

bytedance-seed/seed-1.6

Created Dec 23, 2025262,144 context

Starting at $0.25/M input tokensStarting at $2/M output tokens

Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.

Recent activity on Seed 1.6

Total usage per day on OpenRouter

Prompt

684M

Reasoning

40.6M

Completion

18.2M

Prompt tokens measure input size. Reasoning tokens show internal thinking before a response. Completion tokens reflect total output length.

ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 – Recent Activity and Usage Stats | OpenRouter