Seed 1.6

bytedance-seed/seed-1-6

Maker: ByteDance Seed, China
Released: 2025-10-15
Family: seed
Weights: closed
Tasks: text.chat, text.reasoning, code, vision.understand, vision.extract
Cheapest offering: Volcengine Ark, about $0.000475 for a typical text.chat call

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Offerings

Provider	Model id at the provider	Status	Price per 1M tokens	Per-unit prices	Limits	Capabilities (level)
OpenRouter	`bytedance-seed/seed-1.6`	deprecated	Input: $0.25 Output: $2 Input, prompts over 128,000 tokens: $0.5 Output, prompts over 128,000 tokens: $4 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 262,144 tokens Max output: 32,768 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.video` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `structured_output` claimed `reasoning` claimed
Volcengine Ark	`doubao-seed-1-6-251015`	deprecated	Input: $0.11875 Output: $1.18747 Cache read: $0.02375 Input, prompts over 32,000 tokens: $0.17812 Output, prompts over 32,000 tokens: $2.37494 Cache read, prompts over 32,000 tokens: $0.02375 Input, prompts over 128,000 tokens: $0.35624 Output, prompts over 128,000 tokens: $3.56241 Cache read, prompts over 128,000 tokens: $0.02375 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 256,000 tokens Max output: 64,000 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.video` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `structured_output` claimed `reasoning` claimed

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bytedance-seed/seed-1.6
doubao-seed-1-6-251015

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curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/models/bytedance-seed/seed-1-6' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Resolve text.chat on its providers

curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/resolve?task=text.chat&providers=openrouter,volcengine' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Built from catalog version 2026-11-04.3 of 2026-11-04. Prices are list prices per 1M tokens unless marked otherwise; every score shows its source's notice (see Attributions).