Seed 1.6 Flash

by ByteDance

Seed 1.6 Flash is the speed-focused member of ByteDance's Seed 1.6 family, shipped alongside the flagship in June 2025. Built for high throughput and low latency, it accepts text, images, and video while retaining the line's 256K context window, and it supports thinking, tool calling, and structured output. The model targets workloads where response time matters as much as answer quality, including real-time assistants, high-volume extraction and classification, and visual understanding pipelines that process screenshots or video frames at scale. It trades some reasoning depth against the full Seed 1.6 in exchange for markedly quicker inference.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
262K
Max output
33K
Input price
$0.07 /1M
Output price
$0.30 /1M
  • No training by default
  • no-KYC deposit available

Available routes

Seed 1.6 Flash runs on 1 route through the qynio gateway. Compare residency, zero retention, and training posture at a glance — full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
MultiNot by defaultNo$0.07$0.30

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Seed 1.6 Flash has its own privacy posture, residency, and no-KYC terms. Postures are maintained by qynio with a last-verification timestamp.

BytePlus Multi-region

Zero data retention is not on by default — abuse monitoring, 180-day retention. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; wallets; deposit available.

Zero data retention
Not by default — abuse monitoring, 180-day retention. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring (180-day retention)
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
no-KYC deposit
deposit available
Transfer mechanism
wallets

Get started

Call Seed 1.6 Flash through the qynio gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly — qynio is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up qynio for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.QYN_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.qyn.io/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "bytedance:ap/seed-1.6-flash",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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