Seed 1.6 Flash API262K context

Pricing & specs mirror our live pricing as of July 2026 (pay-as-you-go).

What is Seed 1.6 Flash?

Seed 1.6 Flash is an ultra-fast multimodal deep thinking model by ByteDance Seed, supporting both text and visual understanding. It features a 256k context window and can generate outputs of...

Seed 1.6 Flash on the release timeline

Seed 1.6 Flash pricing

Pay-as-you-go on DataLLM Lab — these are our live list prices (identical to the pricing page):

On output price, Seed 1.6 Flash is cheaper than 84% of the 309 models in the catalog.

What Seed 1.6 Flash costs per month

Cost = input price × input volume + output price × output volume. The same five workloads run on every model page, so any two compare directly.

Seed 1.6 Flash vs alternatives

When not to use Seed 1.6 Flash

• It is served by a single provider, so there is less failover headroom during an outage.

Specs

How to call Seed 1.6 Flash

Copyfrom openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.datallmlab.com/v1", api_key="YOUR_DATALLM_LAB_KEY")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    # supports tools=[...] and tool_choice
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Copycurl https://api.datallmlab.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Copyimport OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://api.datallmlab.com/v1", apiKey: process.env.DATALLM_KEY });
const r = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(r.choices[0].message.content);

The same key routes Seed 1.6 Flash and 300+ other models — switch models by changing one string. How OpenAI-compatible APIs work.

Prompting tips for Seed 1.6 Flash

• State the goal, not every step. Seed 1.6 Flash reasons internally — give it the objective, constraints and success criteria and let it plan the approach; over-scripting each step tends to lower quality. Turn effort up for hard problems.
• Huge 262K context — but anchor the ask. You can paste whole documents or codebases; models attend most to the start and end, so put the key instruction at the top and restate it after long inputs.
• It reads images. Send image parts alongside your text and ask for specific outputs (named JSON fields, a table, "what changed") rather than "describe this".
• Give it real tools. Pass a tools=[...] schema instead of asking it to "pretend" — let Seed 1.6 Flash emit tool calls, execute them, and feed results back for the next turn.
• Constrain JSON with a schema. Use response_format / structured outputs rather than "reply in JSON" to get valid, parseable objects every time.

Tips are derived from Seed 1.6 Flash's actual capabilities — context window, tool & JSON support, modality and price tier — not generic advice.

Open-source tools for Seed 1.6 Flash

Popular open-source frameworks and agents to build with Seed 1.6 Flash over the API — star counts pulled from GitHub (July 2026).

Listed by GitHub stars; inclusion is by ecosystem relevance (agent frameworks, SDKs and gateways), not affiliation. Stars change — see each repo for current numbers.

Migrating to Seed 1.6 Flash

Coming from OpenAI or another gateway? On an OpenAI-compatible setup the only changes are base_url → https://api.datallmlab.com/v1 and model → bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash. Messages, streaming, tool calls and the rest of your code stay the same. Routing & failover guide.

Rate limits & reliability

Rate limits here are the DataLLM Lab gateway's, not the upstream vendor's. On 429 (rate limited) or 503 (provider busy), retry with exponential backoff. See the error-code guide and failover setup.

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