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Bytedance Seed 1.8


Bytedance Seed 1.8 is ByteDance logoByteDance's language model with a 256K context window and up to 64K output tokens, starting at $0.250 / 1M input and $2.00 / 1M output. A multimodal LLM from ByteDance with stronger visual understanding and agentic capabilities, delivering high performance across complex enterprise tasks.
Spec
Canonical IDbytedance-seed-1-8
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorByteDanceByteDance
Providers
Context Window256K tokens
Max Output64K tokens
Input ModalitiesImage
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 8 months ago

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text·
Image
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities2/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
bytedance/seed-1.8
$0.250$2.00$0.050

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Seed-2.0-Lite262K$0.250$2.00Available
Seed-2.0-Mini262K$0.100$0.400Available
Bytedance Seed 1.8256K$0.250$2.00Current
Seed 1.6262K$0.250$2.00Available
Seed 1.6 Flash262K$0.075$0.300Available
Seed-OSS-36B-InstructAvailable

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