Seed 1.6 with Jev
Seed 1.6 is a model from ByteDance Seed, released 2025-12-23. It costs $0.250 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens, reads up to 262K tokens of context, and writes up to 32,768 tokens in one reply. Through llm11, set model to bytedance-seed/seed-1.6.
The catalogue lists 2026-11-11 as the date Seed 1.6 stops being served.
- Input price
- $0.250 / 1M
- Output price
- $2.00 / 1M
- Context window
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 33K tokens
- Released
- 2025-12-23
- Accepts
- image, text, video
Read from the live catalogue and refreshed daily. At blended list price, 51% of the 332 priced models we can call cost more.
Using Seed 1.6 with Jev
Jev is TypeSafe AI's System One model. It reads each request first and decides which model in your pool answers, with a calibrated confidence on that call. Seed 1.6 does the answering when Jev sends it work, or when you name it yourself. At list price Seed 1.6 falls in the llm11-balanced band, but no pack routes to it because ByteDance Seed is not one of the labs the packs draw from. You can still pin it: pass bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 as model and routing steps aside while verification still runs.
Jev is new, so we have not published results for Seed 1.6 with and without it, and this page does not invent any. Every response comes with a receipt that names the model that answered and what it cost against your most expensive model, so you can measure the pairing on your own traffic.
What a request costs
List price arithmetic, the same sum a receipt does. llm11 adds nothing per request; the only fee is on buying credits.
| Request | Tokens in / out | One | A thousand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 500 / 200 | $0.00053 | $0.525 |
| Question over retrieved documents | 4,000 / 500 | $0.00200 | $2.00 |
| Long document summary | 30,000 / 1,000 | $0.00950 | $9.50 |
Cheaper models to try
The catalogue has no benchmark score for Seed 1.6, so this is a price ordering. It does not claim these answer as well.
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | $0.300 | $1.80 | 1M | |
| Qwen Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingRetires 2026-10-09 | $0.180 | $2.10 | 131K | |
| Qwen Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | $0.210 | $1.90 | 262K | |
| Cohere Command A+ | $0.300 | $1.50 | 192K |
Call it
Same OpenAI request shape. Naming the model pins it, so nothing is routed, and the answer is still checked.
python
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.llm11.com/v1", api_key="llm11_live_...")
res = client.chat.completions.create(
model="bytedance-seed/seed-1.6",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)More from ByteDance Seed
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed 2.1 Turbo | $0.500 | $2.50 | 262K | |
| Seed-2.0-CodeRetires 2026-11-11 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 262K | |
| Seed-2.0-Lite | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K | |
| Seed-2.0-Mini | $0.100 | $0.400 | 262K | |
| Seed 1.6 FlashRetires 2026-11-11 | $0.075 | $0.300 | 262K |
Questions
- What is Seed 1.6 with Jev?
- Jev is TypeSafe AI's System One model. It reads each request first and decides which model in your pool answers, with a calibrated confidence on that call. Seed 1.6 does the answering when Jev sends it work, or when you name it yourself. At list price Seed 1.6 falls in the llm11-balanced band, but no pack routes to it because ByteDance Seed is not one of the labs the packs draw from. You can still pin it: pass bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 as model and routing steps aside while verification still runs. Routing decisions are made by Jev, TypeSafe AI's System One model.
- Is Seed 1.6 a System One model?
- No. Seed 1.6 answers requests. The System One model is Jev, which decides which model answers each one, so the two do different jobs and llm11 uses both.
- How much does Seed 1.6 cost?
- $0.250 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. A 4,000 token prompt with a 500 token answer costs about $0.00200, so a thousand of them is about $2.00. llm11 passes provider list price through and charges 5% when you buy credits.
- What is the Seed 1.6 context window?
- 262,144 tokens, with up to 32,768 tokens in a single reply.
- Does Seed 1.6 support tool calling and structured output?
- The catalogue lists tool calling, structured output and reasoning controls.
- Can I use Seed 1.6 through llm11?
- Yes. Set model to bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint and the request goes to it directly, with verification still running.
- Does Jev route to Seed 1.6?
- Routing decisions are made by Jev, TypeSafe AI's System One model. At list price Seed 1.6 falls in the llm11-balanced band, but no pack routes to it because ByteDance Seed is not one of the labs the packs draw from. You can still pin it: pass bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 as model and routing steps aside while verification still runs.
- What is a cheaper alternative to Seed 1.6?
- Nearest in price and below it: Qwen Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 at $0.300 in and $1.80 out, Qwen Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking at $0.180 in and $2.10 out and Qwen Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at $0.210 in and $1.90 out. The catalogue has no benchmark score for Seed 1.6, so this is a price ordering. It does not claim these answer as well.
- Is Seed 1.6 being retired?
- The catalogue lists 2026-11-11 as the date it stops being served. Move traffic before then.