Model comparison
Seed 1.6 Flash vs o3
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Seed 1.6 Flash
Not scored
value score
o3
93
value score
Seed 1.6 Flash ctx
—
o3 ctx
200K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- o393
Attribute tape
| Field | Seed 1.6 Flash | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | bytedance-seed | OpenAI |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Modalities | Text, Code | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | — |
| Price | — | $10/1M in · $40/1M out |
| Value score | — | 93 |
| Summary | Seed 1.6 Flash is a fast, cost-efficient multimodal language model from ByteDance's Seed team, supporting text, image, and video inputs with a ~262K-token context window. It is optimized for speed and throughput while retaining deep reasoning and long-context understanding capabilities. | OpenAI reasoning model focused on hard problems. |