Benchmark analysis of Seed 1.6 by ByteDance across 32 sourced tests on BenchLM.
According to BenchLM.ai, Seed 1.6 ranks #44 out of 123 models with an overall score of 65/100. While not a frontier model, it offers specific advantages depending on the use case.
Seed 1.6 is a proprietary model with a 256K token context window. It uses explicit chain-of-thought reasoning, which typically improves performance on math and complex reasoning tasks at the cost of higher latency and token usage.
Seed 1.6 sits inside the Seed 1.6 family alongside Seed 1.6 Flash.
Its strongest category is Multimodal & Grounded (#27), while its weakest is Knowledge (#58). This performance profile makes it particularly strong for screenshots, documents, charts, and grounded multimodal workflows.
Creator
ByteDance
Source Type
ProprietaryReasoning
ReasoningContext Window
256K
Overall Score
Arena Elo
1263
Seed 1.6 ranks #44 out of 123 models with an overall score of 65. It is created by ByteDance and features a 256K context window.
Seed 1.6 ranks #58 out of 123 models in knowledge and understanding benchmarks with an average score of 56.4. There are stronger options in this category.
Seed 1.6 ranks #52 out of 123 models in coding and programming benchmarks with an average score of 42.4. There are stronger options in this category.
Seed 1.6 ranks #55 out of 123 models in mathematics benchmarks with an average score of 75.9. There are stronger options in this category.
Seed 1.6 ranks #50 out of 123 models in reasoning and logic benchmarks with an average score of 74.5. There are stronger options in this category.
Seed 1.6 ranks #41 out of 123 models in agentic tool use and computer tasks benchmarks with an average score of 62.3. There are stronger options in this category.
Seed 1.6 ranks #27 out of 123 models in multimodal and grounded tasks benchmarks with an average score of 79.6. There are stronger options in this category.
Seed 1.6 ranks #34 out of 123 models in instruction following benchmarks with an average score of 87. There are stronger options in this category.
Seed 1.6 ranks #27 out of 123 models in multilingual tasks benchmarks with an average score of 83.4. There are stronger options in this category.
Seed 1.6 belongs to the Seed 1.6 family. Related variants on BenchLM include Seed 1.6 Flash.
Seed 1.6 has a context window of 256K, which determines how much text it can process in a single interaction.
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