Model comparison
Seed 1.6 Flash vs ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
Compare Seed 1.6 Flash and ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct: input/output $/Mtoken, context window, modalities, and license. OpenRouter-synced pricing.
Bytedance Seed
Seed 1.6 Flash
Seed 1.6 Flash is an ultra-fast multimodal deep thinking model by ByteDance Seed, supporting both text and visual understanding. It features a 256k context window and can generate
Bytedance Seed
ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
Tool-capable chat model for instruction following and agentic application workflows
| Metric | Seed 1.6 Flash | ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Bytedance Seed | Bytedance Seed |
| Context window | 262,144 | 262,000 |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.075 | $0.210 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.300 | $0.570 |
| Modalities | vision, text, video | text |
| License | closed | closed |
Quick take
On input price, Seed 1.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.075/Mtok. For context window, Seed 1.6 Flash leads with 262,144 tokens.
Pick based on your workload: high-volume cheap inference vs long-document / agent loops. Enterprise DNA can wire either model into Omni with evals, secrets, and job orchestration.