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Bytedance Seed: Seed 1.6 Vision

ByteDance Seed multimodal model for image understanding, visual reasoning, and tool-assisted tasks

Source-linked seed Closed weights Released 2025-08-15
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InputT
OutputT
Input price$0.119/M
Output price$1.187/M
Context256K
Max output32K
Providers2
Inference availability

Providers

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Providers offering Seed 1.6 Vision
ProviderProvider model IDContextMax outputInputOutputCache readCapabilitiesDocs
Volcengine Ark doubao-seed-1-6-vision-250815 256K 32K $0.119 $1.187 $0.024 ReasoningToolsJSON Docs ↗
Ofox volcengine/doubao-seed-1-6-vision 256K 32K $0.12 $1.15 $0.023 ToolsJSON Docs ↗

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Listed rates

Price across providers

Input price per million tokens as published by each provider. Bars are drawn from listed rates only — no traffic weighting, since the catalog observes no requests.

Lowest input $0.119/M

Across 2 priced providers

Median input $0.119/M

Midpoint of listed rates

Highest input $0.12/M

1.0× the lowest listed rate

Output range $1.15 – $1.187

Per million output tokens

Volcengine Ark $0.119/MLowest
Ofox $0.12/M
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Specification

Capabilities

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Reasoning Yes
Tool calling Yes
Structured output Yes
Attachments Yes
Vision input Yes
× Open weights No
Model family
seed
Knowledge cutoff
Not documented
License
Not documented
Release date
2025-08-15
Model ID
bytedance-seed/seed-1-6-vision
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Change log

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Price Completion1.15 → 1.18747
Price Prompt0.12 → 0.11875
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GET https://model.kyssta.lol/api/v1/models/bytedance-seed/seed-1-6-vision
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curl "https://model.kyssta.lol/api/v1/models/bytedance-seed/seed-1-6-vision"
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What is Seed 1.6 Vision?

ByteDance Seed multimodal model for image understanding, visual reasoning, and tool-assisted tasks. It is published by Bytedance Seed and catalogued here from Models.dev.

How much does Seed 1.6 Vision cost?

Listed input pricing starts at $0.119 per million tokens from Volcengine Ark, rising to $0.12 across 2 listed providers.

What is the context length of Seed 1.6 Vision?

Seed 1.6 Vision accepts up to 256K tokens of context and returns up to 32K output tokens.

Does Seed 1.6 Vision support tool calling and structured output?

Provider catalogs list support for tool calling, structured output, reasoning, and image input.

Which providers serve Seed 1.6 Vision?

2 providers list this model: Volcengine Ark, Ofox.

Are the weights for Seed 1.6 Vision open?

No. This model is served through hosted APIs only.

When was Seed 1.6 Vision released?

The catalog records a release date of 2025-08-15, last verified Sep 11, 2026.

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