doubao
Doubao is a large language model service platform offered by Volcano Engine, a ByteDance subsidiary, known for outstanding value, multimodal capabilities, and a 256K long context. It provides a full stack of capabilities including the Seed 2.0 series (Pro / Mini / Lite / Code), Seedream image generation, TTS speech, and Embedding vectorization, making it one of the most cost-effective commercial LLM APIs in China.
256K token context window; visual understanding; code generation (Seed 2.0 Code); image generation (Seedream 5.0); speech synthesis (Doubao TTS); vectorization (Embedding Large); Function Calling; JSON mode; context caching; OpenAI-compatible interface.
High-value reasoning and conversation; code generation and completion; image generation and editing; speech synthesis; vector-based retrieval; long-document analysis; enterprise knowledge bases; agent workflows.
International and domestic pricing differ; some models are available only in China; images/speech are billed per use; no on-premises deployment; high concurrency requires contacting sales.
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache Read / 1M | Per 1M |
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| $4.47/M |
| $0.1788/M |
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Doubao Seed 2.1 Pro doubao-seed-2-1-pro | $0.89/M | $4.47/M | $0.1788/M | 1M |
Doubao Seed Character doubao-seed-character | $0.18/M | $0.89/M | $0.0238/M | 1M |
Doubao Seedance 2.0 Mini doubao-seedance-2-0-mini | — | 480P/720P No Video Input$3.4328/M$1.3731/M-60% 480P/720P With Video Input$2.0896/M$0.8358/M-60% | — | 1M |
Doubao Seedance 2.0 Fast doubao-seedance-2-0-fast | — | 480P/720P No Video Input$5.5224/M$4.1418/M-25% 480P/720P With Video Input$3.2836/M$2.4627/M-25% | — | 1M |
Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite doubao-seed-2-0-lite | $0.27/M | $1.61/M | $0.0537/M | 1M |
Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini doubao-seed-2-0-mini | $0.12/M | $1.19/M | $0.0238/M | 1M |
Doubao Seed3D 2.0 doubao-seed3d-2-0 | — | Default$0.3587/instance | — | 1M |
Doubao Seedance 2.0 doubao-seedance-2-0 | — | 480P/720P No Video Input$6.8657/M 480P/720P With Video Input$4.1791/M 1080P No Video Input$7.6119/M 1080P With Video Input$4.6269/M 4K No Video Input$3.8806/M 4K With Video Input$2.3881/M | — | 1M |
Doubao Seedance 2.5 doubao-seedance-2-5-260628 | — | Without Video Input$10.43/M With Video Input$6.26/M 1080P Without Video Input$11.48/M$8.27/M-28% 1080P With Video Input$6.86/M$4.94/M-28% | — | 1M |
Hyper3D Gen2 hyper3d-gen2 | — | Default$0.2691/instance | — | 1M |
Hitem3D 2.0 hitem3d-2-0 | — | Standard (untextured)$0.867/instance Standard (textured)$1.5172/instance High-precision (untextured)$1.3004/instance High-precision (textured)$1.9507/instance | — | 1M |
Doubao Seed Code doubao-seed-code | $0.42/M | $2.38/M | $0.0358/M | 1M |
Doubao Seed Translation doubao-seed-translation | $0.18/M | $0.54/M | - | 1M |
Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro doubao-seed-2-0-pro | $1.43/M | $7.15/M | $0.2861/M | 1M |
Doubao Seed 2.0 Code doubao-seed-2-0-code | $1.43/M | $7.15/M | $0.2861/M | 1M |
Doubao Seed 1.8 doubao-seed-1-8 | $0.36/M | $3.58/M | $0.0238/M | 1M |
Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision doubao-seed-1-6-vision | $0.36/M | $3.58/M | $0.0238/M | 1M |
Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash doubao-seed-1-6-flash | $0.09/M | $0.89/M | $0.0045/M | 1M |
Doubao Seed 1.6 doubao-seed-1-6 | $0.36/M | $3.58/M | $0.0238/M | 1M |
Doubao 1.5 Vision Lite doubao-1-5-vision-lite | $0.22/M | $0.67/M | - | 1M |
Doubao Seedance 1.5 Pro doubao-seedance-1-5-pro | — | With Audio$2.38/M Without Audio$1.19/M | — | 1M |
Doubao Embedding Large doubao-embedding-large | $0.1/M | $0/M | - | 1M |
Doubao Embedding Vision doubao-embedding-vision | $0.1/M | $0/M | - | 1M |
Doubao TTS doubao-tts | — | Default$0.0448/1K chars | — | 1M |
Doubao Embedding doubao-embedding | $0.07/M | $0/M | - | 1M |
Doubao Seed ASR 2.0 doubao-seed-asr-2-0 | — | Default$0/sec | — | 1M |