# Seed 1.6 Usage, Cost & Rank | OpenCode Data

> Seed 1.6 costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens.

ByteDance Seed model for long-context reasoning, instruction following, and tool-assisted tasks

- Page: https://opencode.ai/data/bytedance-seed/seed-1-6
- JSON: https://opencode.ai/data/bytedance-seed/seed-1-6.json
- Model ID: bytedance-seed/seed-1-6
- Lab: ByteDance Seed

## Model facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Context window | 256K |
| Max output | 64K |
| Knowledge cutoff | - |
| Release date | 2025-10-15 |
| Input modalities | text, image, video |
| Output modalities | text |
| Reasoning | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes |
| Open weights | No |

## Pricing: USD per 1M tokens

| Input | Output | Cached input | Cache write |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| $0.25 | $2.00 | - | - |

## Methodology

- Updates: Aggregated every hour. Days and weeks use UTC.
- Tokens: Input, output, reasoning, and cached tokens for each request.
- Users and sessions: Approximate counts of distinct users and OpenCode sessions.
- Cost: Session cost is the average cost per OpenCode session. Token prices are list prices from the OpenCode model catalog.
- Retention: The share of a model's users in one week who use it again the next week.
- Citation: Cite OpenCode Data (opencode.ai/data) with the update time shown at the top of the page.