Bytedance Seed API Pricing Calculator
Estimate your monthly and annual token and multimodal costs for Doubao-pro, Doubao-lite, Seed-Voice, Seed-TTS, and Seed-Video APIs in 2026. Custom configure search grounding and dedicated concurrency speeds.
Token & Workload Parameterizer
Configure model endpoints, context thresholds, and throughput volumes
Endpoints represent parsing configurations optimized for specific tokenized workloads and multimodal feeds.
Your expected monthly prompt and structural system context throughput.
Defines the ratio of generated output tokens relative to input query tokens.
Enabling these features guarantees real-time relevance and latency optimizations for large production traffic.
Calculated Cost Summary
Annual & Monthly API token expenditure matrix
Select your active model endpoint, adjust your monthly token volume, configure optional parameters, and hit Calculate to evaluate your costs.
Bytedance Seed API Specifications
Detailed pricing breakdowns per 1,000,000 tokens across core text, audio, and visual generation feeds for 2026.
| Model Endpoint / Integration Feed | Input Rate (Per Million) | Output Rate (Per Million) | Best Suited Application |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doubao-pro-32k (Text API) | $0.11 | $0.28 | General AI chat, structural summaries, translation |
| Doubao-pro-128k (Long Context API) | $0.70 | $1.25 | Multi-document analysis, codebase audits, heavy research |
| Doubao-lite-32k (Speed Optimized) | $0.04 | $0.08 | Real-time chat widgets, simple classifications, parsing |
| Seed-Voice / TTS (Expressive Speech) | $0.80 | $1.60 | Ultra-natural customer service voice avatars, audiobooks |
| Seed-Edit / Creative Image | $1.50 | $3.00 | Creative product image edits, generative UI adjustments |
| Seed-Video (Cinematic Video API) | $15.00 | $30.00 | Text-to-video visual animations, commercial clip drafting |
Bytedance Seed API FAQ
Answers to critical questions regarding Volcano Engine tokens, model latency, and enterprise configurations.
The Bytedance Seed API (hosted via Volcano Engine in China and BytePlus globally) is an advanced suite of multimodal models. It includes Doubao-pro and Doubao-lite text models, as well as Seed-Voice/TTS for natural speech, Seed-Edit for creative image edits, and Seed-Video for generation.
Pricing is calculated on a Cost-Per-Million (CPM) tokens model, separated by input tokens (prompt context) and output tokens (generated response). Multimodal models like Seed-Voice and Seed-Video apply specific CPM rates proportional to model complexity.
Search Grounding integrates ByteDance’s real-time web search index to provide accurate, up-to-date facts in model answers. Due to extra web retrieval loops and input context overhead, an additional premium of $1.20 per million input tokens is applied.
Yes. Volcano Engine and BytePlus platforms generally provide a starter package of 500,000 free tokens upon standard account activation to test and integrate Doubao-pro and Doubao-lite models.
Bytedance’s Doubao models are incredibly cost-effective, running at up to 90% cheaper rates than competing models. Doubao-pro-32k starts at only $0.11 per million input tokens, making it highly competitive for heavy programmatic scaling.
For heavy enterprise workloads, Concurrency Mode routes API traffic through dedicated, non-shared model servers, offering consistent low latency and zero rate-limiting at a minor surcharge of $0.50 per million total tokens.