Our take
Seed is a small, tightly-curated host for ByteDance's Seed model family with a zero-retention data policy and measured throughput on every offer. It is a strong pick when data privacy is paramount and you want transparent speed numbers before you commit.
Use this when zero data retention is a hard requirement, or when exploring ByteDance's Seed family specifically. Pick it for budget-conscious access to the entry-level Seed 1.6 Flash or Seed 2.0 Mini. Skip it if you need a broad model catalogue, verified SOC 2, or a confirmed EU endpoint.
- Strong data privacy posture: does not train on prompts and offers a zero-retention option.
- Transparent throughput reporting across all 6 offers, ranging from 15.5 to 85 tokens per second.
- Lowest-cost entry point for Seed models: Seed 1.6 Flash is several times cheaper than the premium Seed 2.0 Code.
- Fastest throughput on a mid-tier model: Seed 2.0 Mini at 85 tokens per second, more than five times faster than Seed 1.6.
- Very narrow model catalogue: only 6 tracked offers, all from the single ByteDance Seed family.
- Compliance and geographic footprint are undocumented: HQ country, EU endpoint and SOC 2 are all unverified in our data.
- Throughput is inconsistent across model variants: a more than five-fold gap between the slowest and fastest offers, and premium models carry steep output pricing.
Point your tools here
We have not recorded what a router needs for Seed yet — no base URL and no docs link on file. That is our gap, not a sign Seed has no API; its own documentation is the place to look until we close it.
Privacy & data handling
These answers cover requests sent to Seed through OpenRouter, as OpenRouter records them, last read 4 hours ago. For Seed's own API we hold no answer: check its terms. SOC 2 and the data processing agreement below are hand-checked, not part of that sync.
Prompt retention: none.