ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6
ByteDance Seed 1.6 offers broad multimodal capabilities including video input and a large 262K context window, but lacks benchmark data to substantiate its reasoning or instruction-following ability. It may be worth monitoring as the provider matures, but cannot be recommended for business-critical use without performance evidence.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + Video → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 | $0.000250 |
| Output | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
