Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite: API pricing, providers and specs
Textby ByteDance
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite is a text model by ByteDance. One provider serves it: AIHubMix, at $0.656 /1M.
Lowest price$0.656/1Mat AIHubMix
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers1
Context256KMax output 32K
How Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.656 /1M against a median of $1.10; 42% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 256K-token context window is larger than 38% of them (median 262K), about 380 pages of text.
- 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 AIHubMix | $0.082/1M | From$0.656/1M | $0.016/1M | 256K |
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- ByteDance
- Inputs
- Image, Text, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 256K≈ 380 pages of text
- Max output
- 32K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- —
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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The lowest price for Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite is $0.656 /1M, at AIHubMix.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite reads up to 256K tokens per request and writes up to 32K.
We have not found Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite's weights published by its maker.
1 API providers serve Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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