Seed 2.1 Turbo
Seed 2.1 Turbo is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Seed 2
- Released
- 2026-06-24
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Volcengine
About
ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.1 Turbo is the low-cost, high-throughput variant in the Seed 2.1 series, announced alongside Seed 2.1 Pro at the Volcano Engine annual conference on June 23-24, 2026. Optimized for large-scale production deployments where latency and per-token cost are prioritized. Priced at half of Seed 2.1 Pro: ¥3/MTok input, ¥15/MTok output (approximately $0.41/$2.07 USD at 7.25 CNY/USD). Available through Volcano Engine API and Coze ecosystem.
Seed 2.1 Turbo is a proprietary model in the Seed 2 family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through Volcengine, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.41 input and $2.07 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Seed 2.1 Turbo yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volcengine | $0.410 | $2.07 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 1 route · Volcengine