Seed 1.6 Flash pricing.
prices as of · 6 providers · 6 prices
ByteDance's Seed 1.6 Flash 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 Flash costs $0.07 in and $0.30 out per million tokens from OpenRouter; the cheapest price we can explain is $0.51 at LLM Gateway, checked 16 Sept 2026.
OpenRouter list price
$0.52/M tokens
$0.07 in · $0.30 out
read · 85% below the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$0.51/M tokens
$0.07 in · $0.30 out · 3% under list
LLM Gatewayread
What it costs for your work
OpenRouter list price
$0.063a month
cheapest we can explain · LLM Gateway
$0.06a month
difference
$0.003saved
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 Flash
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 Flash and sells it on no catalog we read, so the price every row is measured against is OpenRouter's.
Cheaper, and we know why
1 priceBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
$0.07 / $0.30in / out per M
0.97×of list price
Same price as the maker
5 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.07 / $0.30in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.30in / out per M
1.00×of list price
SeedThe same price OpenRouter charges.
fp8 precision$0.07 / $0.30in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.30in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.07 / $0.30in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Frequently asked
- Who sells Seed 1.6 Flash cheapest?
- LLM Gateway, at $0.07 in and $0.30 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. 7% under the list price, an ordinary reseller margin.
- Is Seed 1.6 Flash 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 Flash hold?
- 262,144 tokens in one call, which is about 262k, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Seed 1.6 Flash compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.52 per million tokens, OpenRouter's price is 85% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.