// pricing · September 2026
ByteDance Seed API Pricing
Every ByteDance Seed model's list price per 1M tokens — input, output and cached input — with context windows, LiveBench scores and what a real workload costs per month.
6 ByteDance Seed models are listed, with a median list price of $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens. Paid prices run from $0.131 (Seed 1.6 Flash) to $1.13 (Seed-2.0-Code) per 1M tokens blended.
- Models
- 6
- Median input / 1M
- $0.250
- paid models
- Median output / 1M
- $2.00
- paid models
- Cheapest paid
- $0.131
- Seed 1.6 Flash
- Prompt caching
- 0
- publish a cached-input price
ByteDance Seed model prices
List prices in USD per 1M tokens. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix; the per-month column prices the selected workload using each model's cached-input rate where it publishes one.
Showing 6 of 6 models · per-month column: 8K in / 600 out × 100K requests, 50% of input cached
| bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash | $0.075 | $0.300 | — | $0.131 | 262K | — | $78.00 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini | $0.100 | $0.400 | — | $0.175 | 262K | — | $104.00 |
| bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite | $0.250 | $2.00 | — | $0.688 | 262K | — | $320.00 |
| bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 | $0.250 | $2.00 | — | $0.688 | 262K | — | $320.00 |
| bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo | $0.500 | $2.50 | — | $1.00 | 262K | — | $550.00 |
| bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-code | $0.500 | $3.00 | — | $1.13 | 262K | — | $580.00 |
ByteDance Seed pricing FAQ
What is the cheapest ByteDance Seed model?
Seed 1.6 Flash is the cheapest paid ByteDance Seed model, at $0.075 per 1M input tokens and $0.300 per 1M output tokens.
Why do output tokens cost more than input tokens?
Generating a token takes a full forward pass per token, while input is processed in parallel. Across the paid ByteDance Seed models listed here the median output price is $2.00 per 1M against $0.250 for input — reasoning tokens bill as output too.
Which ByteDance Seed models support prompt caching?
None of them publish a separate cached-input price right now.
How current are these prices?
List prices are pulled from OpenRouter’s public models API and refreshed every 15 minutes. Batch discounts and enterprise pricing are not included.
Other providers
What these prices include
- List prices from OpenRouter's public models API, which mirrors provider pricing. Batch discounts and negotiated enterprise rates are not included.
- Variants —
:freeand:batchlistings are folded into their base model; its model page lists them. - Per-month cost is a floor: tokens you describe times list price. Cache writes and reasoning-token volume depend on your workload.