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Why use Seed 2.1 Turbo on Volcengine?
Volcengine offers Seed 2.1 Turbo with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.41/1M input tokens. Volcengine is ByteDance's cloud platform offering comprehensive AI APIs including Doubao LLMs for multimodal generation and inference with Chinese market optimization.
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: doubao-seed-2.1-turbodoubao-seed-2.1-turboRequest example
Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "doubao-seed-2.1-turbo", not the LLMReference slug "seed-2.1-turbo".
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.41 |
| Output tokens | $2.07 |
Capabilities
About Seed 2.1 Turbo
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.
FAQ
What does Seed 2.1 Turbo cost on Volcengine?
On Volcengine, Seed 2.1 Turbo costs $0.41 per 1M input tokens and $2.07 per 1M output tokens.
What API model ID do I use for Seed 2.1 Turbo on Volcengine?
Use the model ID doubao-seed-2.1-turbo when calling Volcengine's API.
Who created Seed 2.1 Turbo?
Seed 2.1 Turbo was created by ByteDance as part of the Seed 2 model family.
Is Seed 2.1 Turbo open source?
Seed 2.1 Turbo is not open source; the seed data lists it as proprietary.