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ByteDance's AI assistant and model series for conversation and text tasks.
Doubao on Volcengine Ark: Seed 2.1 Pro ¥6/¥30 per 1M tokens, 2.1 Lite ¥0.8/¥2.7; Coding Plan ¥40 or ¥200/month. International (BytePlus): Seed 2.0 Pro $0.50/$3, Coding Plan $10 or $50/month.
Links & pricingByteDance Seed's model series for image generation and editing.
Seedream is billed per image: 5.0 Pro $0.045 (international) / ¥0.30 (China), 5.0 Flash $0.018 / ¥0.12, 5.0 Lite $0.035 / ¥0.22. High-resolution Pro output costs double.
Links & pricingByteDance Seed's video generation model series.
Seedance is billed by video tokens: 2.5 costs $10.70 per 1M tokens internationally (about $0.23/s at 720p) and ¥70 per 1M in China (about ¥1.51/s at 720p); 2.0 Fast is about $0.12/s at 720p.
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