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Why use Seed 1.6 on Volcengine?
Volcengine offers Seed 1.6 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.
Compare Seed 1.6 across 2 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: doubao-seed-1-6-251015doubao-seed-1-6-251015Request example
doubao-seed-1-6-251015.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "doubao-seed-1-6-251015", not the LLMReference slug "seed-1.6".
Compare Seed 1.6 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 |
| Volcengine | — | — |
Capabilities
About Seed 1.6
Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose multimodal model from ByteDance Seed supporting text, image, and video inputs. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and deep thinking for complex tasks at 256K context.
FAQ
What is the context window for Seed 1.6 on Volcengine?
Seed 1.6 supports a 256k token context window on Volcengine.
How does Volcengine compare to other Seed 1.6 providers?
Seed 1.6 is available from 2 providers. The cheapest input pricing is $0.25/1M tokens from Vercel AI Gateway.
What API model ID do I use for Seed 1.6 on Volcengine?
Use the model ID doubao-seed-1-6-251015 when calling Volcengine's API.
Who created Seed 1.6?
Seed 1.6 was created by ByteDance as part of the Seed model family.
Is Seed 1.6 open source?
Seed 1.6 is not open source; the seed data lists it as proprietary.