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Seed 1.6 FlashAPI
Seed 1.6 Flash is an ultra-fast multimodal deep thinking model by ByteDance Seed, supporting both text and visual understanding.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $0.14 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 96% of the 192 commercial models tracked here
- 1 of 6 ByteDance Seed models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks
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About this model
Seed 1.6 Flash is a commercial AI model by ByteDance Seed. The specifications below are tracked automatically: pricing is refreshed daily from public list prices, so the numbers on this page reflect the current cost of using the model through its API.
Frequently asked questions
What is Seed 1.6 Flash?
Seed 1.6 Flash is an AI language model from ByteDance Seed. It is a proprietary model, available through an API.
Is Seed 1.6 Flash free?
Seed 1.6 Flash is not free: it costs $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.3 per million output tokens. Open-weight alternatives can be self-hosted at no per-token cost.