Seed 1.6: API pricing, providers and specs
Seed 1.6 is a text model by ByteDance. 7 providers serve it, from $0.285 to $2.12 /1M; the lowest price is at APIYI.
How Seed 1.6 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.285 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 77% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 262K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
- 7 providers serve it; 71% of comparable models have fewer.
Seed 1.6 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 APIYI | $0.114/1M | From$0.285/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.18/1M | From$1.80/1M | $0.036/1M | 256K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.05/1M | 256K |
| OpenRouter | $0.25/1M | From$2/1M | — | 262K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.25/1M | From$2/1M | $0.05/1M | — |
| Atlas Cloud | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.05/1M | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.265/1M | $2.12/1M | — | — |
- APIYIFrom$0.285
- AIHubMixFrom$1.80
- Vercel AI Gateway$2
- Atlas Cloud$2
- OpenRouterFrom$2
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$2
- AI/ML API$2.12
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- ByteDance
- Inputs
- Image, Text, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 262K≈ 390 pages of text
- Max output
- 33K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Sep 1, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed 1.6this model | $0.285/1M | 262K | — | 7 |
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| Qwen3.8 Flash Next | $0.376/1M | 262K | 1628 | 5 |
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The lowest price for Seed 1.6 is $0.285 /1M, at APIYI.
APIYI, at $0.285 /1M. 7 providers serve Seed 1.6; the table above lists every one with its price.
Seed 1.6 reads up to 262K tokens per request and writes up to 33K.
We have not found Seed 1.6's weights published by its maker.
7 API providers serve Seed 1.6. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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