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ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6
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.
- Input
- image
- text
- video
- Output
- text
- Video understanding
Providers
Available through 1 free provider. Use the model ID and API settings below to connect.
Vercel AI Gateway
VAVercel AI Gateway
* The provider match may differ from this model. Check its docs for details.
Benchmarks
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Frequently asked questions
Free access, setup, and what to expect.
Free API access for Seed 1.6 is listed through Vercel AI Gateway, but a specific request or token allowance isn’t available in the listed data. Check the Seed 1.6 provider pricing and rate limits for what’s included and any account requirements.
To use Seed 1.6, choose one of the listed Seed 1.6 API providers and follow the provider’s account and API-key setup guide. Copy the Seed 1.6 model ID and connection settings for your chosen provider into your app or API client. Model IDs can differ between providers. API requests go directly to the provider; Free Models is a comparison site.
Seed 1.6 accepts image, text, and video as listed input formats. Listed output formats include text. Image or audio input support does not imply image or audio generation. Check the chosen provider’s Seed 1.6 documentation for supported file types and request formats.
Seed 1.6 has a listed context window of 262K tokens. Tokens are small pieces of content rather than a word count. Instructions, conversation history, and other inputs use context space, and the response also needs room. The maximum output length for Seed 1.6 may be smaller than the context window and can vary by provider.
Seed 1.6 has both reasoning and tool calling listed as supported capabilities. Reasoning enables additional processing for complex problems. Tool calling allows a model to request functions that your app executes. Check the chosen provider’s documentation for capability availability and setup.
No benchmark results are listed for Seed 1.6 yet. Missing scores don’t establish poor performance. Compare scores within the same benchmark: coding indexes, Elo ratings, and win rates measure different things. The index comparison charts include only scored free models listed on Free Models. Evaluate Seed 1.6 on examples from your own task alongside context size and provider limits.