Seed 1.6 Flash

ByteDance
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 The parameter count is unpublished, and no weights are provided.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.
| Specification | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Weights | ProprietarySource |
| Access | APISource |
| 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 |
Benchmark meta-analysis
These Gradually indexes place selected published measurements on a 0 to 100 scale. They are not accuracy percentages and do not guarantee results in your application.
Not enough independent results for a score yet
provisional
Method version: benchmark-meta-score-v3
The index includes active measurements from reviewed primary sources when at least five models are compared in the same documented comparison slice across dataset, harness, agent, tools, and trial count. Each benchmark series and evaluator contributes one shared setup slice from the newest capture. When one source and series include several explicitly documented reasoning tiers, the highest documented tier (none through max) is selected, never the best result value. The explicit source label “Non-reasoning” is treated as none. Unknown or ambiguous tiers exclude the model from that series. Within each series, percentages and rates are logit-transformed, other units stay unchanged, and all values are then standardized. A one-factor model then estimates one shared strength per model and, per series, how sharply it separates the models. Area scores move away from that strength only as far as the model's own results in the area support. The overall score weights the core areas at 75% and finance, law and health at 25%. It requires at least eight test series from two sources and three areas. The 0 to 100 scale refers to a fixed reference group of 29 language models whose average sits at 50.
Published model-specific parameters can differ. This is not a controlled experiment; comparisons with such differences are marked provisional.
Unmeasured series are not entered as zero. Where a model has no own results in a core area, its overall strength stands in, and the note “estimated without own results in …” names the area. Fewer test series lead to a larger standard error.
The 95% interval follows from the standard error of 200 recalculations with randomly redrawn test families. It describes how precisely the recorded test series determine the value. It is no prediction for future tasks or for later recalculations with other participants.
The source count is not a count of independent experiments.
OECD handbook on composite indicatorsAll 0 test families and 0 of 0 raw measurements are listed here. The complete calculation for every model is available in the JSON export.
Each evaluator measures different capabilities under its own conditions. Test series, composite indices and their components stay separate. The detailed results below retain their scales, configurations and source dates.
No active result from the reviewed external evaluators can currently be attributed to this model. Other source evidence remains available below.
Coverage is not a quality ranking. Overlapping tests and multiple settings do not count as independent experiments. Vendor claims, historical and disputed results are excluded from this overview and remain labelled in the detailed evidence.
These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.
One SVG prompt and fixed output settings. Captures are shown only with 0 reported reasoning tokens or documented lack of reasoning controls. Identical test conditions do not make the models' internal compute identical.

A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
Seed 1.6 Flash

Reasoning (requested): high
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Task origin (Simon Willison)9.4 / 100
| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Price | Base API prices without caching or batch discounts. Higher context tiers and other rates are listed under Costs. |
| Research status | Research date September 8, 2026. 6 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | parameters-billions Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | active-parameters-billions Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | knowledge-cutoff Original wording No exact value located in the checked primary model card/API documentation. |
| Unresolved | AA benchmark rows Original wording No exact Artificial Analysis model page located in the checked public sitemap. |
| Unresolved | other-table-metric-direction Note The same table includes PCS and five phenotype dimensions. This bundle records only aggregate accuracy because the cited report does not establish that the phenotype dimensions are higher-is-better quality scores. |
| Additional source | Model metadata (retrieved September 22, 2026) · BytePlus Seed 1.6 Flash documentation · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026 |
| Additional source | A Memetic Landscape for Scrutinizing LLMs, OpenReview Table 3 (retrieved October 15, 2026) |
| Additional source | Model metadata (retrieved September 8, 2026) |
| Additional source | ByteDance Seed 1.6 technical overview · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026 |
| Additional source | OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Ollama: cumulative downloads for the popularity index |
| Additional source | Replicate: cumulative runs for the popularity index |
| Additional source | Google Trending Now: limited feed selection for Germany and the US |
| Additional source | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |