Long-horizon, high-precision dexterous robot manipulation and real-world VLA policy specialization
Type
Other
Reasoning
7/10
Speed
4/10
Multimodal
Image input
Fine-tuning
Status
Current research model/framework; public API availability not documented
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Protein and biomolecular complex structure prediction, computational biology research, molecular design workflows, and self-hosted scientific inference
Type
Other
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
5/10
Fine-tuning
Status
Active open-source biomolecular structure prediction project with multiple model variants, including Protenix-v1 and Protenix-v2
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Multimodal agent workflows, search and information retrieval, coding agents, GUI interaction, image and video understanding, complex instruction following, and long-context business tasks.
Type
Multimodal
Context
256K
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
8/10
Multimodal
Image input
Video input
Status
Beta; accessible through BytePlus ModelArk as seed-1-8-251228. The separate LAS multimodal deep-thinking operator using Seed1.8 ended service on 2026-09-20.
Input
USD 0.25 per million tokens for prompts up to 128K tokens; USD 0.50 per million tokens for prompts over 128K and up to 256K; cached input USD 0.05 per million tokens.
Output
USD 2.00 per million tokens for prompts up to 128K tokens; USD 4.00 per million tokens for prompts over 128K and up to 256K. Batch output pricing is USD 1.00 or USD 2.00 per million tokens by prompt-length tier.
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Self-hosted general language modeling, long-context research, reasoning experiments, coding assistance, summarization, and foundation-model fine-tuning
Type
General Purpose
Context
524K
Reasoning
7/10
Speed
5/10
Fine-tuning
Streaming
Status
Available open-weight model
Input
No official hosted API price; downloadable weights are available under Apache-2.0
Output
No official hosted API price; deployment cost depends on user infrastructure or third-party hosting
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Self-hosted long-context reasoning, coding, agentic tool use, research, question answering, summarization, and general text generation
Type
Reasoning
Context
524K
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
5/10
Tool use
Streaming
Status
Current open-weight model; downloadable under the Apache-2.0 license
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Research, custom post-training, long-context processing, coding experiments, and self-hosted foundation-model deployment
Type
General Purpose
Context
512K
Reasoning
7/10
Speed
4/10
Tool use
Fine-tuning
Status
Current open-weight downloadable foundation model
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General-purpose Chinese and multilingual assistance, coding, reasoning, image and document understanding, and voice-interaction applications.
Type
Multimodal
Context
33K
Reasoning
7/10
Speed
8/10
Multimodal
Image input
Audio input
Status
Retired; the primary doubao-1-5-pro-32k-250115 deployment was scheduled to shut down on 2026-09-21 at 14:00 China Standard Time.
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Visual reasoning, image and video understanding, OCR, visual grounding, GUI-agent research, gameplay analysis, and multimodal benchmark evaluation
Type
Multimodal
Context
131K
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
6/10
Multimodal
Image input
Video input
Status
Retired; Volcano Engine service ended on 2026-03-31
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Cross-modal semantic search, text-image retrieval, video retrieval, multimodal knowledge bases, classification, clustering, and recommendation
Type
Other
Context
128K
Reasoning
1/10
Speed
8/10
Multimodal
Image input
Video input
Status
Current and available through Volcano Engine
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Multimodal document analysis, visual question answering, coding, mathematics, general reasoning, long-context analysis and adaptive-thinking applications
Type
Multimodal
Context
256K
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
7/10
Multimodal
Image input
Tool use
Status
Deprecated; new endpoint creation stopped on 2026-09-24; existing service scheduled for automatic migration or replacement on 2026-11-24
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Deep reasoning, coding, mathematics, logical analysis, document understanding, and visual reasoning over images or videos
Type
Reasoning
Context
256K
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
5/10
Multimodal
Image input
Video input
Status
Deprecated; scheduled for retirement and migration to a Seed2.0 model
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Cost-conscious production applications requiring long-context multimodal understanding, document and video analysis, coding assistance, tool use, GUI automation, and structured extraction.
Type
Multimodal
Context
262K
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
8/10
Multimodal
Image input
Audio input
Status
Current; latest documented release seed-2-0-lite-260428
Input
$0.25 per 1M non-audio input tokens for prompts up to 128K; $0.50 per 1M for prompts above 128K and up to 256K. Audio input: $3.75 per 1M tokens up to 128K and $7.50 per 1M above 128K.
Output
$2.00 per 1M output tokens for prompts up to 128K; $4.00 per 1M for prompts above 128K and up to 256K.
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High-concurrency inference, batch generation, classification, extraction, summarization, and cost-sensitive multimodal workloads
Type
Lightweight
Context
256K
Reasoning
7/10
Speed
9/10
Multimodal
Image input
Video input
Status
Current; available through ByteDance's Volcano Engine model API
Input
$0.03 per 1M input tokens
Output
$0.31 per 1M output tokens
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Complex multimodal reasoning, long-chain agent workflows, visual and video analysis, document understanding, scientific research support, coding, and enterprise automation.
Type
Multimodal
Context
200K
Reasoning
9/10
Speed
6/10
Multimodal
Image input
Audio input
Status
Active and currently accessible through Volcano Engine Ark; canonical deployment version 260215
Input
CNY 3.2 per million tokens for 0–32K input; CNY 4.8 per million tokens for 32–128K input; CNY 9.6 per million tokens for 128–256K input. Batch inference input pricing is CNY 1.6, 2.4, and 4.8 per million tokens for the same tiers.
Output
CNY 16 per million tokens for 0–32K input; CNY 24 per million tokens for 32–128K input; CNY 48 per million tokens for 128–256K input. Batch inference output pricing is CNY 8, 12, and 24 per million tokens for the same tiers.
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Complex agent workflows, high-value office and research tasks, long-horizon coding, document and visual analysis, video understanding, and tool-enabled productivity automation.
Type
General Purpose
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
6/10
Multimodal
Image input
Video input
Status
Current and officially released; available through ByteDance Seed, Doubao, and Volcano Engine API channels.
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Fast multimodal agents, coding assistants, document and video analysis, tool-calling workflows, structured data extraction, and cost-sensitive production applications
Type
Multimodal
Context
256K
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
9/10
Multimodal
Image input
Video input
Status
Current and available through Volcano Engine Ark; API model identifier doubao-seed-2-1-turbo-260628
Input
CNY 6 per 1M input tokens for input lengths up to 256K tokens
Output
CNY 30 per 1M output tokens
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Long-form audiovisual storytelling, text-to-video, reference-based video generation, creative production, advertising, education, industrial simulation, and video editing.
Type
Multimodal
Reasoning
2/10
Speed
7/10
Multimodal
Image input
Audio input
Status
Current; available through ByteDance platforms including Jimeng AI, Doubao Pro, and the Seed platform. API access through BytePlus ModelArk was announced as forthcoming.
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Multimodal text-to-video and reference-based video creation, cinematic short clips, video editing and extension, multi-shot storytelling, and synchronized audio-video production.
Type
Multimodal
Reasoning
1/10
Speed
6/10
Multimodal
Image input
Audio input
Status
Current official model page remains available; older generation superseded by Seedance 2.5
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Full-scene audio creation, expressive voice generation, dubbing, dialogue, sound effects, ambience, advertising, games, podcasts, and multilingual audio production
Multimodal
Image input
Audio input
Status
Currently available through BytePlus
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High-throughput code generation research, diffusion-language-model evaluation, and code-editing experiments
Type
Coding
Reasoning
4/10
Speed
10/10
Status
Experimental research preview
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Embodied robotics research, long-horizon manipulation, bimanual control, dexterous object handling, and adapting robot policies to new objects and tasks
Type
Other
Reasoning
6/10
Speed
6/10
Multimodal
Image input
Media output
Status
Current officially documented research model; no public hosted API, commercial pricing, or downloadable weights verified
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Real-time audio-visual assistants, scene-aware guidance, live explanation, interactive learning, accessibility, and proactive multimodal collaboration
Type
Multimodal
Reasoning
7/10
Speed
9/10
Multimodal
Image input
Audio input
Status
Current; fully rolled out for large-scale audio-visual full-duplex deployment
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Professional image generation and editing, high-density infographics, advertising and e-commerce creative, multilingual visual content, precise spatial edits, layer separation, and multi-reference image workflows
Type
Multimodal
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
7/10
Multimodal
Image input
Media output
Status
Current and publicly documented; available through BytePlus ModelArk and ByteDance Seed services
Input
First reference image free; additional reference images $0.003 per image
Output
$0.045 per output image for images up to 2.36 million pixels; $0.09 per output image above 2.36 million pixels
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Open-weight computer-use research, GUI grounding, browser automation prototypes, screenshot-based interface interaction, and visual action-model experimentation
Type
Multimodal
Context
128K
Reasoning
8/10
Speed
5/10
Multimodal
Image input
Status
Available open-weight research release; superseded by UI-TARS-2 for the provider's newer UI-TARS development line
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