Seed 1.6 Vision
Seed 1.6 Vision is worth evaluating for agents, vision, and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating agents, vision, and json / tool use
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- Seed
- Released
- 2025-08-15
- Specialization
- vision
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 1 route · Volcengine
About
Seed 1.6 Vision is ByteDance Seed's separately addressable multimodal model for visual understanding, GUI interaction and tool-assisted tasks. Its live Volcengine route is scheduled for retirement but remains available.
Seed 1.6 Vision is a proprietary model in the Seed family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input and tool use. This page tracks provider routes through Volcengine. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Seed 1.6 Vision yet.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volcengine | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Agents
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
When was Seed 1.6 Vision released?
Seed 1.6 Vision was released on 2025-08-15.
Which providers offer Seed 1.6 Vision?
Seed 1.6 Vision is available from 1 provider: Volcengine.
Cheapest of 1 route · Volcengine