Seed 1.6 Vision
by ByteDance SeedChat
ByteDance Seed multimodal model for image understanding, visual reasoning, and tool-assisted tasks
- Context
- 256K tokens
- Max output
- 32,000 tokens
- Released
- 2025-08-15
- Weights
- Closed
bytedance-seed/seed-1-6-vision-250815 · also seen as doubao-seed-1-6-vision-250815
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-08-15
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 256,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 32,000
- Providers
- 1 + 1 gateway, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.119 in · $1.19 out per 1M tokens · from its one provider
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-09-30
- Knowledge cutoff
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.119 in / $1.19 out per 1M tokens at Volcengine Ark on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026, the earliest refresh this model's headline price can be rebuilt from. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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