ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash
Review
ByteDance Seed's Seed 1.6 Flash is an affordable multimodal model with video and vision support, but without benchmark data its capabilities cannot be reliably assessed for professional business use.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + Video → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash
|
| Provider | bytedance-seed |
| Release Date | December 23, 2025 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 32,768 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.08 | $0.000075 |
| Output | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
Live Performance
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