# Seed (slim)

> Seed, a family of models by ByteDance Seed, listed from OpenRouter. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking…

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seed.md (~450 tokens) · this version ~380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seed.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seed
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-05

# Seed

> Indexed, not reviewed: facts from OpenRouter and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/

- Kind: model family, by ByteDance Seed
- Category: Model APIs & inference (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/inference.md)
- Listed because: OpenRouter lists it, with prices from the providers that serve it.
- What OpenRouter says: Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.

## Models (1)

| Model | OpenRouter id | Released | Context | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Supports |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seed 1.6 | `bytedance-seed/seed-1.6` | 2025-12 | 262k | $0.25 | $2 | tools, structured output, reasoning, image, video |

Prices and limits as OpenRouter lists them; a provider's own price can differ.

- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/seed.json
- Being indexed says nothing about quality, and nobody can pay for it. Ask for a review: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#claiming