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Typical 3:1 output-to-input mix, per 1M tokens
Price as of 2026-05-10 · Source: volcengine_doubao_reference_pricing
Mixed text, image, audio and document workloads that benefit from one model across modalities.
Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.
seed-1.6 is a Multimodal model from ByteDance Seed (CN). HotON.ai tracks it at $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 262K-token context window. Its composite efficiency score is 90/100 at an estimated $0.002 per successful task.
seed-1.6 is tracked at $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens. A typical 3:1 output-to-input workload blends to roughly $1.56 per 1M tokens. Figures are illustrative demo data.
Mixed text, image, audio and document workloads that benefit from one model across modalities.
seed-1.6 supports up to a 262K-token context window — large enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.
Within the HotON.ai tracked set, seed-1.6 is cheaper than 58% of models on input price and ranks #88 of 535 by overall efficiency.
Yes — grok-4-fast is a lower-cost option at $0.50 per 1M output tokens, while still covering similar Multimodal use cases. Compare them side by side on HotON.ai.
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HotON.ai — seed-1.6 (ByteDance Seed): $0.25/1M input, $2.00/1M output, as of 2026-05-10. https://hoton.ai/en/models/bytedance-seed-seed-1-6Pricing is real (via the TestKey catalog, updated daily). Quality (Arena Elo) is real where the model is ranked on LMArena. Efficiency is a modeled composite of real price and context.