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.
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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 holds the #184 spot for context size out of 412 chat models in the CoreAI catalog — 262K tokens, roughly 196,608 words or 393 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #19 cheapest of 198 standard-tier models by input cost. It joined the catalog on 2025-12-23. It supports step-by-step reasoning (thinking mode) and accepts image input.
Every model in this table is available on CoreAI — open the web app and run the same prompt through ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 and ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite side by side to judge with your own eyes.
A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00125 on ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.022. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 handles 262K tokens of context — roughly 196,608 words, or about 393 pages of text in one conversation.
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6's underlying rates are $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
Yes — ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 accepts image input, so you can attach screenshots, photos or diagrams and ask questions about them.
Yes. ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 can work through problems step by step before answering; on CoreAI you can toggle thinking mode per message.
Open the CoreAI web app or the iOS/Android app, pick ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 in the model selector, and chat — no API key, no per-token billing. One subscription covers ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 and 300+ other models.
The closest alternatives on CoreAI are ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite, Sakana: Sakana Namazu, IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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