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ByteDance · Seed 2.1

Doubao Seed 2.1 Turbo

Closed weightsGenerally availableproprietary

Faster, cheaper Seed 2.1 tier from ByteDance for high-volume enterprise agent and coding workloads; sold internationally on BytePlus as Dola Seed 2.1.

AA Intelligence
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Input / output per 1M
$0.50/ $2.50
Output speed
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Context window
262K tokens

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#38 of 103
    67.6%vendorTerminal-Bench 2.1ByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

Vision and long context

  • MMMU-Pro#17 of 72
    80.1%vendorno tools (82.2 with tools)ByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

  • Video-MME#3 of 4
    89%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 90%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
KINA46.6%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
SuperGPQA67.4%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
BeyondAIME88%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
Workspace Bench54.7%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
Agent Startup Bench54%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
xDailyBench56.4%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
NL2Repo-Bench43.7%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
ProgramBench49.4%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
SWE-Atlas30.6%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
MathVision (no tools)90.1%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
WorldVQA48.6%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
ZEROBench (no tools)11%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
BabyVision62.9%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
CharXiv-RQ (no tools)82.5%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
ERQA71.3%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
MMLongBench-128K76.9%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
TOMATO56.8%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
Minerva65.9%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
OVOBench79.2%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗
VideoSimpleQA71.4%vendorByteDance Seed: Seed2.1 model page ↗

Specs

Released
June 23, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text, image, video
Output
text
Context
262K tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$0.10 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$1.10 / 1M
  • Price: BytePlus ModelArk pricing (online inference, USD) ↗ BytePlus model id dola-seed-2-1-turbo, input tier [0, 256K]. Volcano Engine China: CNY 3/15/0.6. Context window from pricing tier / OpenRouter listing (262,144).

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