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Seed 1.6 Flash

ByteDance

Released
June 15, 2025
Data date
September 8, 2026
Benchmark-Meta-Score
Unavailable
No independent results
Price
Input · Output / 1M tokens

Seed 1.6 Flash is ByteDance’s compact API variant of its multimodal deep-thinking model. It accepts text, images, and video, supports up to 256K tokens of context, and can answer directly with thinking disabled. The parameter count is unpublished, and no weights are provided.

BytePlus documents the service as a controllable API for production agent and document work. There is no checkpoint for local research because ByteDance provides only the provider-bound serving form.

Specifications and access

SpecificationValue and source
Weights
ProprietarySource
Access
Context window
256,000 tokensSource
Notes
Compact multimodal deep-thinking model with a 256K context window; parameter count is not published.Source
Input
Text, Image, Video (retrieved 2026-09-22)Source
Output
Text (retrieved 2026-09-22)Source
Capabilities
Function calling, context caching and structured output (Beta). Also processes images and videos. (retrieved 2026-09-22)Source
Release
2025-06-15Source
License
proprietary BytePlus termsSource
API model ID
seed-1-6-flash-250715Source