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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash API Pricing
Seed 1.6 Flash is an ultra-fast multimodal deep thinking model by ByteDance Seed, supporting both text and visual understanding. It features a 256k context window and can generate outputs of...
How much does ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash cost for a real workload?
At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month, ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash costs about $1.35 ($0.75 input + $0.6 output). Try your own volumes in the cost calculator.
What are cheaper alternatives to ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash?
- Tencent: Hy-MT2-30B-A3B — $0.074 in / $0.295 out per 1M
- Tencent: Hy-MT2-7B — $0.074 in / $0.295 out per 1M
- Qwen: Qwen3 32B — $0.08 in / $0.28 out per 1M
- Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B — $0.18 in / $0.18 out per 1M
- Qwen: Qwen3 14B — $0.12 in / $0.24 out per 1M
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 — $0.119 in / $0.238 out per 1M
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Frequently asked questions
How much does ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash cost?
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash costs $0.075 per 1M input tokens and $0.3 per 1M output tokens (list price, snapshot October 21, 2026). At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month that is about $1.35.
What is the context window of ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash?
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash has a context window of 262,144 tokens and can return up to 32,768 output tokens per response.
What are cheaper alternatives to ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash?
Cheaper models include Tencent: Hy-MT2-30B-A3B ($0.074 in / $0.295 out), Tencent: Hy-MT2-7B ($0.074 in / $0.295 out), Qwen: Qwen3 32B ($0.08 in / $0.28 out). See the full list on this page.
Is ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash free to use?
No. ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash is a paid model at $0.075 input / $0.3 output per 1M tokens. 20 free models are listed on the free models page.
Provider: bytedance-seed · Model ID: bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash · Modality: text+image+video->text · Price snapshot October 21, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices