ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6
bytedance-seed/seed-1.6
PaidTool callingVision inputReasoning
OpenRouter lists this route as expiring on Nov 11, 2026. Plan a replacement before then.
Price Published
- Input
- $0.25 per million tokens
- Output
- $2.00 per million tokens
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Specifications Published
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Vision input
- Supported
- Reasoning
- Supported
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
- Listed since
- Dec 23, 2025
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About this model OpenRouter description
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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