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# Seed 1.6

> Seed 1.6 by ByteDance Seed. API: $0.25 in / $2 out per M tokens. 262K context. Scores, sources and comparisons.
- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/models/seed-1-6
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Title: Seed 1.6 Benchmarks, Price & Rank (October 2026) | Noometry

Seed 1.6 is a ByteDance Seed model tracked on Noometry for pricing and specifications. API pricing starts at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens, with a 262K-token context window.

Last verified October 10, 2026

## Specifications

- **Noometry rank:** Unranked
- **Index score:** Not ranked
- **Evidence:** 0 results
- **Provider:** [![](/logos/bytedance.svg) ByteDance Seed](https://noometry.com/providers/bytedance)
- **Released:** Unknown
- **Weights:** Unknown
- **Reasoning:** Yes
- **Context window:** 262K
- **Max output:** 33K
- **Input price:** $0.25 / M
- **Output price:** $2 / M
- **Blended price:** $0.69 / M
- **Output speed:** Not measured
- **Value:** Not ranked
- **Knowledge cutoff:** Unknown
- **Input:** image, text, video

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## Benchmark results

Every published result we track, with its source. Bold rows are the ones used for ranking; where several exist we prefer independent runs over self-reported numbers.

No public benchmark results are tracked for Seed 1.6 yet.

## API pricing by provider

Seed 1.6 API prices
| Route | Input $/M | Output $/M | Cached input $/M | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [openrouter](https://openrouter.ai/bytedance-seed/seed-1.6) | $0.25 | $2 | — | 2026-10-10 |

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## Compare Seed 1.6

-   [Seed 1.6 vs GPT-6 Astra](https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-6-astra-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs Claude Fable 5.1](https://noometry.com/compare/claude-fable-5-1-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs Claude Opus 5.5](https://noometry.com/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs Claude Opus 5](https://noometry.com/compare/claude-opus-5-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs Claude Fable 5](https://noometry.com/compare/claude-fable-5-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs GPT-6.1 Sol](https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-6-1-sol-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash](https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-3-8-flash-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs Kimi K3](https://noometry.com/compare/kimi-k3-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs Grok 4.6](https://noometry.com/compare/grok-4-6-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs Qwen3.8 Max](https://noometry.com/compare/qwen3-8-max-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs GLM-5.3](https://noometry.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs Muse Spark 1.3](https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-1-3-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro](https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v4-pro-vs-seed-1-6)
-   [Seed 1.6 vs MiMo-V2.6-Pro](https://noometry.com/compare/mimo-v2-6-pro-vs-seed-1-6)

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## Frequently asked questions

### How good is Seed 1.6?

Seed 1.6 is a ByteDance Seed model tracked on Noometry for pricing and specifications. API pricing starts at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens, with a 262K-token context window.

### How much does Seed 1.6 cost?

Seed 1.6 costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens on openrouter.

### What is Seed 1.6's context window?

Seed 1.6 accepts up to 262K tokens of input and can write up to 33K tokens in one response.

### Is Seed 1.6 open source?

ByteDance Seed has not published downloadable weights for Seed 1.6 that we can confirm.

### Cite this page

Noometry. (2026). Seed 1.6 benchmarks and pricing. Retrieved October 10, 2026, from https://noometry.com/models/seed-1-6

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