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Text Input $0.12/M
Text Output $1.19/M
ByteDance Seed model for long-context reasoning, instruction following, and tool-assisted tasks
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Seed 1.6 ByteDance Seed model for long-context reasoning, instruction following, and tool-assisted tasks
doubao-seed-1-6-251015Copy ID
Type Text
Quality Not rated yet
Context window 256,000 tokens
Max output 64,000 tokens
Input price $0.12 / 1M tokens
Output price $1.19 / 1M tokens
Cache read $0.024 / 1M tokens
Cache write —
Released Oct 15, 2025
Knowledge cutoff —
Takes in Text
Puts out Text
Reasoning Yes
Tool calling Yes
Structured output Yes
File attachments No
Access Paid
License Proprietary
Rarity Common
Set number 678/1044 Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by ByteDance’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: www.volcengine.com.
How good is it? Public leaderboard scores for Seed 1.6, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.
No public leaderboard lists Seed 1.6 yet. Epoch AI and LMArena cover most chat, image, and video models from the big labs; embeddings, speech, and small open models mostly go unrated.
Where to run it 7 providers sell Seed 1.6 through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.
Cheapest Ofox $0.12 in · $0.29 out From the lab Volcengine Ark $0.12 in · $1.19 out API providers From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.
Face off Current text models from other labs at a similar output price.
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