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Seed 1.6 Pricing
ByteDance Seed · bytedance-seed-seed-1-6
Input / 1M tokens
$0.250
Output / 1M tokens
$2.00
Context window
262,144 tokens
≈ 350 pages of text
Max output
32,768 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0011
1,000 requests / month$1.10/mo10,000 requests / month$11.00/mo100,000 requests / month$110.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Seed 1.6 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Processes 262k-token contexts with vision support at low input cost, suitable for document analysis and retrieval-augmented tasks.
The business tradeoff
Limited third-party benchmarks and smaller ecosystem than major providers; output token pricing is eight times the input rate.
Cheaper from ByteDance Seed
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.