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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. $0.25 per million input tokens, $2 per million output tokens. 262,144 token context window, maximum output of 32,768 tokens.

Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
32,768 tokens
Architecture
text+image+video->text
Tokenizer
Other
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$0.25
/M tokens
  • ≤128K$0.25
  • >128K$0.5
Output
$2
/M tokens
  • ≤128K$2
  • >128K$4
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Moderated
No
Default parameters
No
API

Quick start

Call this exact model ID through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"bytedance-seed/seed-1.6","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
imagetextvideo
Output
text
Reasoning

No

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningresponse_formatstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_p
Available providers

1 Provider

Live providers on OpenRouter

Provider availability, latency, throughput and routing can change continuously. Open the source page for current operational data.

OpenRouter

Seed

fp8
Context
262K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.250
Output
$2.00
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided
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