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Seed 1.6

by Bytedance Seed

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.

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Seed 1.6

Added 10 July 2026

#bytedance-seed

Overview

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.

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `bytedance-seed/seed-1.6`.

  • openrouter · bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 Docs

OpenRouter id: bytedance-seed/seed-1.6

Notes

Seed 1.6 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Seed 1.6 is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
58.7M ▼16.2%
Requests, last 7 days
14K
Tool calls, last 7 days
991
Average cost per request
4.4¢
Price per million tokens
$0.25 in · $2 out
0100M200M19 Sept: 4.2M tokens, 1.4K requests20 Sept: 25M tokens, 1.7K requests21 Sept: 3.5M tokens, 1.4K requests22 Sept: 27.4M tokens, 10.8K requests23 Sept: 12.1M tokens, 2K requests24 Sept: 25.9M tokens, 3.9K requests25 Sept: 8.1M tokens, 8.2K requests26 Sept: 1.4M tokens, 1.3K requests27 Sept: 4M tokens, 2.2K requests28 Sept: 13.3M tokens, 2.2K requests29 Sept: 8.4M tokens, 2.7K requests30 Sept: 13.3M tokens, 7K requests1 Oct: 167M tokens, 10.9K requests2 Oct: 19.1M tokens, 3.8K requests3 Oct: 1.6M tokens, 1.6K requests4 Oct: 5.1M tokens, 2.2K requests5 Oct: 89.9M tokens, 6.5K requests6 Oct: 93.1M tokens, 6K requests7 Oct: 117M tokens, 3K requests8 Oct: 16.6M tokens, 6.4K requests9 Oct: 10.2M tokens, 2.7K requests10 Oct: 3.1M tokens, 1.4K requests11 Oct: 2.5M tokens, 1.7K requests12 Oct: 10.1M tokens, 4.1K requests13 Oct: 17.4M tokens, 2.9K requests14 Oct: 10.1M tokens, 2.4K requests15 Oct: 15.5M tokens, 2.1K requests16 Oct: 10.5M tokens, 1.7K requests17 Oct: 5.4M tokens, 1.7K requests18 Oct: 6.3M tokens, 2.5K requests19 Oct: 9.5M tokens, 2K requests20 Oct: 6.2M tokens, 2.2K requests21 Oct: 5.2M tokens, 1.7K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct21 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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