Model

Seed 1.6

Name: Seed 1.6
Brand: bytedance-seed

ByteDance Seed model for long-context reasoning, instruction following, and tool-assisted tasks

7 providers · 9 listingsreleased Oct 15, 2025closed weights

$0.119

lowest input /M · Volcengine Ark

$0.29

lowest output /M · Ofox

262K

context window

256K

max output

Compare providers (sorted by listed input price)

7 providers list Seed 1.6. The cheapest full-context option is Volcengine Ark at $0.119/$1.19 per M. Ofox lists lower but caps context at 256K.

			Cache read /M	Cache write /M		Capabilities
Volcengine Ark doubao-seed-1-6-251015	$0.119	$1.19	$0.024	—	256K	reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Oct 15, 2025
Ofox volcengine/doubao-seed-1-6	$0.12	$0.29	$0.023	—	256K	reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Oct 15, 2025
LLM Gatewayvariant bytedance/seed-1-6-250615	$0.25	$2	$0.05	—	256K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Jun 25, 2025
LLM Gatewayvariant bytedance/seed-1-6-250915	$0.25	$2	$0.05	—	256K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Sep 15, 2025
Vercel AI Gateway bytedance/seed-1.6	$0.25	$2	$0.05	—	256K	reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 1, 2025
DevPass (LLM Gateway)variant seed-1-6-250615	$0.25	$2	$0.05	—	256K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Jun 25, 2025
DevPass (LLM Gateway)variant seed-1-6-250915	$0.25	$2	$0.05	—	256K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Sep 15, 2025
Kilo Gateway bytedance-seed/seed-1.6	$0.25	$2	—	—	262K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Dec 23, 2025
OpenRouter bytedance-seed/seed-1.6	$0.25	$2	—	—	262K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision	Dec 23, 2025

Best price history

Daily lowest published price across live providers. A lower line is better for the buyer.

Best input /M: $0.12unchanged
Best output /M: $0.29unchanged
Provider coverage: 9; 8 at the start · 24 snapshots

Published best prices are unchanged.

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Recent changes

Changelog →

capabilityvia ofox · Aug 28, 2026
- structured_output: — → true
capabilityvia volcengine · Aug 28, 2026
- structured_output: — → true
new providervia volcengine · Aug 26, 2026

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