Model Detail
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash
—ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash is a multimodal model released by Bytedance-seed. And supports text+image+video->text inputs.
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash is priced at $0.075/M input tokens and $0.3/M output tokens. Operationally the model offers a 262K-token context window, which matters when sizing it for prompt-heavy or latency-sensitive workloads. At this input rate the model sits in the commodity tier and is suitable for high-volume workloads where per-call cost dominates the decision.
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash is published on Hugging Face but our pipeline has not yet captured architecture, license, or parameter-count metadata for this entry. The data is refreshed daily, so these fields typically populate within 24–48 hours of release.
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash is best fit for mixed text-and-image reasoning tasks such as document understanding, high-volume batch jobs where per-call cost dominates the budget, and long-context tasks such as full-codebase analysis or book-length summarization (262K tokens). Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.
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