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 · 2 months 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

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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 Pro—256K$0.500$3.00Available
Seed-TTS 2.0————Available
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