Seed 1.6 Flash
Seed 1.6 Flash is a compact variant — chosen for high throughput and low cost rather than absolute capability. Available via bytedance-seed. 262,144-token context. Budget pricing.
Seed 1.6 Flash is a multimodal AI model from bytedance-seed. It costs $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.300 per million output tokens (blended $0.142/M), with a 262,144-token context window.
- Sub-second latency
- Affordable at scale
- Good for routing & classification
- Multimodal: handles images alongside text
- Routing & classification
- Bulk summarisation
- Realtime chat UX
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How much does Seed 1.6 Flash cost?
Seed 1.6 Flash costs $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.300 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.142 per million tokens.
What is Seed 1.6 Flash's context window?
Seed 1.6 Flash supports up to 262,144 tokens of context in a single request.
What is Seed 1.6 Flash best for?
Seed 1.6 Flash is well suited to Sub-second latency, Affordable at scale and Good for routing & classification.
Who makes Seed 1.6 Flash?
Seed 1.6 Flash is developed and served by bytedance-seed.