Seed 1.6 Flash

A Presenc AI lineage report published 2026-05-15 places Seed 1.6 Flash within ByteDance's 2026 Seed/Doubao lineup as the cost-efficient workhorse tier, sharing Seed 1.6's 256K context window and four-mode thinking capability. The report cites Seed 1.6 Flash at a $0.022-per-million output-token price floor, framing it a The same lineage article situates Seed 1.6 Flash between the Seed 1.6 (1.6/1.6 Flash workhorse tier) and the newer Seed 2.0 / Seed 2.0 Pro flagship multimodal and reasoning variants released in February 2026, within a 19-SKU production lineup. It characterizes the broader family strategy as driving ByteDance's consumer

Seed 1.6 Flash is profiled on the n8n AI Benchmark dashboard as an ultra-fast multimodal deep thinking model from ByteDance Seed. The page documents a 262,144-token context window, multimodal inputs (image, text, and video), text-only outputs, and pricing of $0.000000075 per 1K prompt tokens and $0.0000003 per 1K compl On n8n's leaderboard, Seed 1.6 Flash earns an overall score of 76 (9th placement), with category scores of Cost 98 (3rd), Logic 80 (7th), Speed 87 (13th), Scoring 61 (3rd), Tool Use 32 (7th), Hallucination 54 (16th), Classification 39 (2nd), and Structured Output 75 (4th). The page's reported max completion size of 53