Seed 1.6
Seed 1.6 is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 23B active parameters out of 230B total, a context window of 256K tokens, and three reasoning modes including adaptive chain-of-thought (CoT) that calibrates thinking depth to question complexity.
ReasoningTool UseImplicit Cachingtiered-cost
index.ts
import { streamText } from 'ai'
const result = streamText({ model: 'bytedance/seed-1.6', prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?'})Providers
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 ByteDance | 256K | 1.2s | 74tps | $0.25/M | $2.00/M | Read: $0.05/M Write: — | — | — | +1 | 09/01/2025 |