Pricing by serving provider
standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand| Serving provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Endpoints | |||||||||||||
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| OpenRouterRouted quote | $0.25 | $2.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||
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| VercelRouted quoteVercel reseller quote | $0.25 | $2.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Standardbytedance/seed-1.6
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| Vercel (long context, from 128K tokens)Vercel reseller quote | $0.50 | $4.00 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Long contextbytedance/seed-1.6
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Price history
OpenRouter routed quoteOpenRouter's price is a routed quote. It moves with whichever upstream route OpenRouter prefers that day, so we do not track it as a price history.
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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 pricing, context and availabilityIs ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 still available?
Yes. ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 is scheduled for retirement on 2026-11-11.
How much does ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 cost?
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens as an OpenRouter routed quote, and $2.00 per 1M output tokens as an OpenRouter routed quote. An OpenRouter routed quote is the price of whichever upstream provider OpenRouter prefers today, so it moves day to day.
What is the context window of ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6?
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 accepts up to 262K tokens of context and can return up to 33K output tokens.
Which providers serve ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6?
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 is available from 2 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. OpenRouter is currently the cheapest, as a routed quote.
What can ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 do?
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 supports image input (vision), tool use, reasoning and structured output.
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