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.
Models
Seed 1.6
Added 10 July 2026
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-1.6Docs
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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