ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash
ByteDance Seed's Seed 1.6 Flash has no benchmark data available, limiting confidence in its real-world performance. Multimodal support including video is a notable feature, and pricing is competitive, but businesses should await performance evidence before adopting it for professional use.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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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 up to 16k tokens.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + Video → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.08 | $0.000075 |
| Output | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
