Seed 1.6 Flash
Seed 1.6 Flash has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 256k context window
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
- Family
- Seed
- Released
- 2026-03-01
- Context
- 256k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use with conditions
- Training
- pretrained
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
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.
Seed 1.6 Flash is a proprietary model in the Seed family. The structured metadata tracks a 256k-token context window, multimodal input, reasoning, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Seed 1.6 Flash yet.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
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.