Seed 2.1 Turbo is ByteDance's language model with a 262K context window and up to 236K output tokens, available from 4 providers, starting at $0.431 / 1M input and $2.16 / 1M output. A multimodal LLM from ByteDance Seed optimized for coding and long-horizon agentic workflows including multi-step task execution and visual understanding.
Specifications
Canonical IDbytedance-seed-2-1-turbo
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorByteDanceByteDance
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output236K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 1 month ago

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities6/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Aihubmix
aihubmix/doubao-seed-2-1-turbo
$0.465$2.32$0.093
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo
$0.5$2.50N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
bytedance/seed-2.1-turbo
$0.5$2.50$0.1
Volcengine (ByteDance) logo
Volcengine (ByteDance)
volcengine/doubao-seed-2-1-turbo-260628
$0.431$2.16$0.0862

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Seed 2.1 Turbo262K$0.431$2.16Current
Seed 2 Code262K$0.500$3.00Deprecating
Seed 2 Lite262K$0.250$2.00Available
Seed 2 Mini262K$0.100$0.400Available
Seed 2 Pro256K$0.500$3.00Available
Seed-TTS 2.0Available
Seed 1.6262K$0.250$2.00Deprecating
Seed 1.6 Flash262K$0.075$0.300Deprecating
Seed 1.8256K$0.250$2.00Available

Model IDs

aihubmix/doubao-seed-2-1-turbo
bytedance-seed-2-1-turbo
bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo
bytedance/seed-2.1-turbo
openrouter/bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo
volcengine/doubao-seed-2-1-turbo-260628