BytePlus: Seed 1.6
byteplus/seed-1-6-250915
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puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "byteplus/seed-1-6-250915"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
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puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "byteplus/seed-1-6-250915"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
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Model Card
Seed 1.6 is a multimodal reasoning model from ByteDance's Seed team, accessible here through BytePlus's Model Ark hosting. It reads text, images, and video across a 256,000-token context window, using a sparse Mixture-of-Experts design with 230 billion total parameters and 23 billion active per forward pass.
The model offers three reasoning modes, thinking, non-thinking, and auto, plus an adaptive chain-of-thought mechanism that decides whether to reason step by step based on prompt complexity, rather than always running deep reasoning.
ByteDance reports Seed 1.6-Thinking scored 683/750 in the humanities section of China's 2025 Gaokao exam (ranked first among models tested) and 648/750 in science (ranked second), plus 100% accuracy on the math section of India's JEE Advanced exam. ByteDance compared these results against Gemini 2.5 Pro, DeepSeek-R1, Claude Sonnet 4, and OpenAI o3.
Tool calling is supported, fitting agent and document workflows that combine multimodal understanding with API-driven actions.
Context Window 256K
tokens
Max Output 32K
tokens
Input Cost $0.25
per million tokens
Output Cost $2
per million tokens
Input text, image, video
modalities
Tool Use Yes
Release Date Sep 15, 2025
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can access Seed 1.6 by BytePlus through Puter.js AI API. Include the library in your web app or Node.js project and start making calls with just a few lines of JavaScript — no backend and no configuration required. You can also use it with Python or cURL via Puter's OpenAI-compatible API.
Seed 1.6 is free to try with a Puter account. Every account includes a free AI allowance, and you can chat with it in the playground on this page. You can upgrade your account anytime for a larger allowance.
Seed 1.6 is free to integrate using the Puter.js AI API. With the User-Pays Model, you can add AI to your app for $0, since users cover their own AI usage through their Puter account.
| Price per 1M tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 |
| Output | $2 |
Seed 1.6 was created by BytePlus and released on Sep 15, 2025.
Seed 1.6 supports a context window of 256K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 512 pages of text.
Seed 1.6 can generate up to 32K tokens in a single response.
Seed 1.6 accepts the following input types: text, image, video. It produces: text.
Yes, Seed 1.6 supports tool use (function calling), allowing it to interact with external tools, APIs, and data sources as part of its response flow.
Yes — the Seed 1.6 API works with any JavaScript framework, Node.js, or plain HTML through Puter.js. Just include the library and start building. See the documentation for more details.
Add Seed 1.6 to your app for free
Developers can integrate Seed 1.6 for free using the Puter.js AI API.
With the User-Pays Model, each user covers their own AI usage instead of the developer.