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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash

bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash

Seed 1.6 Flash is an ultra-fast multimodal deep thinking model by ByteDance Seed, supporting both text and visual understanding. It features a 256k context window and can generate outputs of...

Listed (23 Dec 2025)

Source: OpenRouter (live)

Input
$0.075
USD per 1M tokens
Output
$0.300
USD per 1M tokens
Blended
$0.131
75% in / 25% out
Context
262K
tokens
Max output
33K
tokens
Modality
text+image+video->text

Prices as listed on OpenRouter, refreshed every five minutes. Provider-direct prices may differ. Convert to your currency on the AI Tracker.

Capabilities

Declared on the listing

  • Tool / function calling Declared
  • Reasoning controls Declared
  • Structured output Declared
  • InputImage, Text, Video
  • OutputText

Capabilities are read from the provider listing. “Not declared” means the listing does not advertise the feature, not that it is absent.

Why it costs this

Pricing context

  • 84% below median
  • Cheap input
  • Cheap output
  • Market median blended price is $0.806/M across 417 priced models.

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