ByteDance: Seed 1.6
bytedance/seed-1.6
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.
Model specifications
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Context
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 32,800 tokens
- Input price
- $0.25 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $2 / 1M tokens
- Released
- 2026-02-17
Capabilities
- Streaming
- Function calling
- JSON mode
- Playground
Provider pricing, discounts and data privacy
Compare effective provider prices, published discounts, regions, retention policies, training use, compliance, and privacy links by service tier.
Standard service tier
1 available provider · tier input average $0.25 / 1M tokens · tier output average $2 / 1M tokens
BytePlus
Tier: Standard · Region: SG
Pricing
- Input
- $0.25 / 1M tokens
- Output
- $2 / 1M tokens
No provider discount is currently published.
Data privacy and compliance
- Region
- SG
- Zero data retention
- No
- Data retention
- Unknown retention
- Used for training
- Unknown
- Data collection
- Moderated
- No
- GDPR compliant
- No
- HIPAA compliant
- No
- SOC 2 certified
- No
- BYOK supported
- No
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Frequently asked questions
- What is ByteDance: Seed 1.6?
- 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 much does ByteDance: Seed 1.6 cost?
- Input costs start at $0.25 / 1M tokens and output costs start at $2 / 1M tokens. Provider-level prices vary by service tier.
- What is the context length of ByteDance: Seed 1.6?
- ByteDance: Seed 1.6 supports a 262,144 token context window and up to 32,800 output tokens.
- What capabilities does ByteDance: Seed 1.6 support?
- ByteDance: Seed 1.6 supports Streaming, Function calling, JSON mode, Playground.
- Which providers offer ByteDance: Seed 1.6?
- ByteDance: Seed 1.6 is available from BytePlus.
- How do providers handle data privacy for ByteDance: Seed 1.6?
- 1 of 1 providers report that customer data is not used for training, and 0 offer zero-data-retention routing. Retention, compliance, and privacy-policy links are listed per provider.