Seed 1.6 pricing.

prices as of · 7 providers · 7 prices

ByteDance's Seed 1.6 holds 262k tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Whether its weights are open is not stated by our sources.

Seed 1.6 costs $0.25 in and $2 out per million tokens from OpenRouter, and no provider goes below it with a reason we can point at.

tool callingreads imagesreasoningstructured output262k contextreleased 23 Dec 2025

OpenRouter list price

$2.75/M tokens

$0.25 in · $2 out

read · 23% below the market median

Cheapest price we can explain

no price

Nobody goes below OpenRouter's price for a reason we can point at, so the list price is the one to beat. Every other price is below.

What it costs for your work

pages a month

OpenRouter list price

$0.27a month

cheapest we can explain

none

difference

no list price

A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.

Every provider selling Seed 1.6

Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against OpenRouter's price. ByteDance trained Seed 1.6 and sells it on no catalog we read, so the price every row is measured against is OpenRouter's.

Same price as the maker

7 prices

The same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.

Frequently asked

Who sells Seed 1.6 cheapest?
No provider sells Seed 1.6 below OpenRouter's price with a reason we can point at. 7 providers sell it at or above list, and those prices are all on this page.
Is Seed 1.6 open weights?
No. ByteDance keeps the weights, so every price on this page is ByteDance's own or a resale of it. A price below list here needs a published reason, or it is listed and never ranked.
How much context does Seed 1.6 hold?
262,144 tokens in one call, which is about 262k, and it can call your own functions.
How does Seed 1.6 compare with the rest of the market?
At $2.75 per million tokens, OpenRouter's price is 23% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.
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