Model comparison
Seed 1.6 vs GPT-5
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Seed 1.6
Not scored
value score
GPT-5
94
value score
Seed 1.6 ctx
—
GPT-5 ctx
400K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- GPT-594
Attribute tape
| Field | Seed 1.6 | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | bytedance-seed | OpenAI |
| Context | — | 400K |
| Modalities | Text, Code, Image, Audio | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | Fast |
| Price | — | Mid-High |
| Value score | — | 94 |
| Summary | Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose multimodal large language model from ByteDance's Seed AI research team, featuring adaptive deep reasoning, native multimodal input (text, image, video), and a 256K-token context window. It is built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 23B active parameters out of 230B total, and is accessible via Volcano Engine APIs and OpenRouter. | OpenAI frontier multimodal model. |