ByteDanceSeed 1.6
Seed 1.6 is a ByteDance proprietary reasoning model. It is not yet ranked: no independent benchmark results so far, only pricing and metadata. At $0.688 per million tokens blended it is mid-priced. Output speed of 43 tokens per second puts it in the slowest quarter, with a first token in 0.8 s.
- Blended price
- $0.688/M
- $0.250 in · $2.00 out
- Output speed
- 43 tok/s
- OpenRouter traffic, 7-day median; not yet measured by Artificial Analysis
- First answer
- 0.77 s
- Context
- 262k
- Full answer
- –
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- –
- date not published by our sources
No independent quality benchmark results yet — only pricing and metadata.
Where to run it
Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.
| Provider | Speed | First token | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Quantisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 43 tok/s | 0.62 s | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262k | fp8 |
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0007 | – | 7.7 s |
| Summarize a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.0042 | – | 14.7 s |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.0045 | – | 35.7 s |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.023 | – | 1.6 min |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0009 | – | 5.4 s |
More from ByteDance
See also
Questions people ask
- Why does Seed 1.6 have no BenchLeader Index score?
- The index needs at least five independent results across at least two categories; as of 25 Oct 2026 Seed 1.6 has 0 that count. Launch-post scores are never used, so it is ranked once independent publishers have measured it.
- How much does Seed 1.6 cost per 1M tokens?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, Seed 1.6 costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens, $0.688 blended (three input tokens per output token).
Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Seed 1.6: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/seed-1-6.