Seed 1.6 Flash
Released
2026-03-01
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched 7d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use
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Specifications
- Family
- Seed
- Released
- 2026-03-01
- Lifecycle
- Scheduled retirement: November 11, 2026
- Context
- 256K
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.300
Input / 1M
$0.075
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter
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About
Seed 1.6 Flash is ByteDance Seed's ultra-fast multimodal thinking model supporting text and visual understanding at 256K context, optimized for low-latency inference.
Providers(1)
Compare API pricing across 1 tracked provider route for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.075 | $0.300 | Serverless |
Deprecated provider routes(1)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| Volcengine | DeprecatedRetired September 21, 2026 | doubao-seed-1-6-flash-250828 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.300
Input / 1M
$0.075
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter
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