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Seed 1.6

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by ByteDance · family “seed”

Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window. (description from the OpenRouter listing)

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Released
23 Dec 2025
Context window
262K tokens
Max output
33K tokens
Input $ / 1M tokens
$0.25
Output $ / 1M tokens
$2.00
Cached input $ / 1M
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