ByteDance Seed
Seed 1.6 API pricing
Seed 1.6 is ByteDance Seed’s model on the API market, released 23 Dec 2025. Prices are per million tokens in USD, as last read from the price list.
$0.25Input / 1M
$2.00Output / 1M
262KContext
33KMax output
Specification
USD per million tokens- Provider
- ByteDance Seed
- Model id
bytedance-seed/seed-1.6- Input
- $0.25
- Output
- $2.00
- Cached input
- Not published
- Context window
- 262K tokens
- Maximum output
- 33K tokens
- Takes
- image, text, video
- Returns
- text
- Tool use
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Released
- 23 Dec 2025
- First tracked
- 17 Sept 2026
At $0.25 per million input tokens, Seed 1.6 is dearer than 112 of the 326 models on the price list.
Price changes
Tracked since 17 Sept 2026No price change has been recorded since tracking began on 17 Sept 2026. Prices are checked every six hours, and any change is listed here and on model changes.
More from ByteDance Seed
Cheapest input first- Seed 1.6 Flash$0.075 in · $0.30 out
- Seed-2.0-Mini$0.10 in · $0.40 out
- Seed-2.0-Lite$0.25 in · $2.00 out
- Seed 2.1 Turbo$0.50 in · $2.50 out
- Seed-2.0-Code$0.50 in · $3.00 out
Prices and specifications come from OpenRouter’s catalogue, last read 17 Sept 2026. A provider’s own price may differ; how this is collected.