Last refreshed 2026-07-10. Next refresh: weekly.
Why use Seed 1.6 Flash on Volcengine?
Volcengine offers Seed 1.6 Flash with competitive pricing. Volcengine is ByteDance's cloud platform offering comprehensive AI APIs including Doubao LLMs for multimodal generation and inference with Chinese market optimization.
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model: doubao-seed-1-6-flash-250828Model ID
doubao-seed-1-6-flash-250828Request example
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doubao-seed-1-6-flash-250828.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "doubao-seed-1-6-flash-250828", not the LLMReference slug "seed-1.6-flash".
Compare Seed 1.6 Flash Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
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| Volcengine | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.07 | $0.30 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs
About Seed 1.6 Flash
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.
Model Specs
Released2026-03-01
Context256k
ArchitectureDecoder Only