BytePlus: Seed 1.6 Flash
byteplus/seed-1-6-flash-250715
Access Seed 1.6 Flash from BytePlus using Puter.js AI API.
Get Started// npm install @heyputer/puter.js
import { puter } from '@heyputer/puter.js';
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "byteplus/seed-1-6-flash-250715"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://js.puter.com/v2/"></script>
<script>
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "byteplus/seed-1-6-flash-250715"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/",
api_key="YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="byteplus/seed-1-6-flash-250715",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
curl https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN" \
-d '{
"model": "byteplus/seed-1-6-flash-250715",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
]
}'
Model Card
Seed 1.6 Flash is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost tier of the Seed 1.6 family, accessible here through BytePlus's Model Ark hosting. It shares the family's 256,000-token context window and reads text, image, and video input, and it launched alongside Seed 1.6 and Seed 1.6-Thinking as part of ByteDance's Doubao 1.6 rollout, which cut token pricing sharply from the prior generation.
ByteDance built its Seed-1.6-Embedding model on top of Seed 1.6 Flash, reusing its multimodal understanding of text, images, and video as the base for that embedding model.
Tool calling is supported, and input and output pricing run well below the full Seed 1.6 model, so it targets high-volume, latency-sensitive use cases such as real-time chat, agent loops with frequent tool calls, and media classification. Teams that need the strongest reasoning should use Seed 1.6 or Seed 1.6-Thinking instead.
Context Window 256K
tokens
Max Output 32K
tokens
Input Cost $0.08
per million tokens
Output Cost $0.3
per million tokens
Input text, image, video
modalities
Tool Use Yes
Release Date Jul 15, 2025
Model Playground
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can access Seed 1.6 Flash 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.
Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js. With the User-Pays Model, you can add Seed 1.6 Flash to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.
| Price per 1M tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.08 |
| Output | $0.3 |
Seed 1.6 Flash was created by BytePlus and released on Jul 15, 2025.
Seed 1.6 Flash supports a context window of 256K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 512 pages of text.
Seed 1.6 Flash can generate up to 32K tokens in a single response.
Seed 1.6 Flash accepts the following input types: text, image, video. It produces: text.
Yes, Seed 1.6 Flash 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 Flash 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.
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