ByteDance Seed

Seed 1.6 Vision

Tool callingStructured outputImage input

ByteDance Seed multimodal model for image understanding, visual reasoning, and tool-assisted tasks

Context
256K
Released
1y ago

Sources:models.dev

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1 as of 2026-09-22. Results are only shown for exact model versions in the official dataset. Official leaderboard.

No benchmark results have been matched to this model yet.

Specifications

Model family
Seed
Type
Language model
Predecessor
—
Successor
—
Released
August 15, 2025
Model ID
bytedance-seed/seed-1-6-vision
Openness
Closed
License
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Input modalities
text, image
Output modalities
text
Modality
text+image->text
Max output tokens
32K
Hugging Face
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Source freshness
Metadata synced Oct 8, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC
Additional source evidence
Source model
bytedance-seed/seed-1-6-vision
Source family
seed
Last updated
2025-08-15
Model context
256K
Model output limit
32K
Open weights
No
File attachments
Yes
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Temperature control
Yes
Complete source record (JSON)
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