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Seed 1.6 (250915) (ByteDance)

Seed 1.6 (250915) (ByteDance) is attributed to ByteDance in the catalog. It accepts text and image input and produces text output. Reported capabilities include reasoning and tool calling.

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Modalities

Hosted provider token rates

$0.25 / $2

USD per 1M input / output tokens · LLM Gateway

Context

256K

Released

2025-09-15

Knowledge cutoff

Unknown

No recent lab-operated provider rate is available. Showing the third-party host with the lowest input rate + ¼ output rate. This is one offering, not an average; other providers, modalities, tiers, and fees may differ.

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1 observed offerings · token prices in USD per million where available

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LLM Gateway

bytedance/seed-1-6-250915

current

Input

$0.25

Output

Cache

$0.05

Context

256K

Max output

256K

Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: No
Temperature: Yes

Recent price

Limits and capabilities reflect each provider’s listed offering. Unknown means support was not reported.

Provider / API ID	Status	Context	Max output	Input	Output	Cache read	Reasoning	Tools	Structured	Temperature
LLM Gateway bytedance/seed-1-6-250915	currentRecent price	256K	256K	$0.25	$2	$0.05	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

Capabilities and limits

Input: text, image
Output: text
Max output: 256K
Weights: Closed (source-reported)
Release: 2025-09-15
Knowledge cutoff: Unknown
Family: seed

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Model and price history

Price history (31 observations)

Date	Provider	Input / output
2026-11-02	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-11-01	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-31	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-30	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-29	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-28	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-27	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-27	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-27	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-27	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-26	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-25	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-24	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-24	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-24	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-23	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-23	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-23	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-23	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-23	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-22	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-21	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-20	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-19	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-18	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-17	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-12	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-12	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-11	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-10	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2
2026-10-09	LLM Gateway	$0.25 / $2