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Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team.

Try in ewpirebytedance-seed/seed-1.6

Opens in the ewpire workspace. Creating an account is free; runs are paid from your credits.

Seed 1.6 in plain words

Seed 1.6 is a text model from ByteDance Seed. It takes images, text, and video as input and returns text. Its context window is 262,144 tokens. It costs 0.310295 credits per 1M input tokens and 2.482353 credits per 1M output tokens. A request with 128,000 or more input tokens is charged, as a whole, at 0.620589 credits per 1M input tokens and 4.964706 credits per 1M output tokens.

It is good at reasoning through multi-step problems and calling tools. It reads images as well as text. A context window of 262,144 tokens holds about 1,000,000 characters of English text, at 4 characters a token.

For example, a question of 2,000 tokens (about 8,000 characters) with an answer of 1,000 tokens (about 4,000 characters) costs 0.003103 credits. The exact charge follows the usage the model reports for your request.

Details

Made by
ByteDance Seed
Good at
ReasoningVisionTool use
Reads
Images, Text, Video
Produces
Text
Context window
262,144 tokens

Price

Input, per 1M tokens
0.310295 credits
Output, per 1M tokens
2.482353 credits

Requests with 128,000 or more input tokens

Input, per 1M tokens
0.620589 credits
Output, per 1M tokens
4.964706 credits

The whole request is charged at these rates, not only the tokens past that size.

Charged per request from your credit balance. No subscription. See pricing

In the API – coming soon

API keys are not open yet. The docs show how to call this model with the OpenAI SDK or plain HTTP once they are. Read the docs

curl https://ewpire.com/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EWPIRE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"bytedance-seed/seed-1.6","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'

The docs show how to list the models the API serves, with their capabilities and prices, once API keys are open. Models in the docs

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