Seed Code Preview
Seed Code Preview is worth evaluating for coding when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Seed
- Released
- 2025-10-28
- Specialization
- coding
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 1 route · Volcengine
About
Seed Code Preview is ByteDance Seed's older, separately addressable coding-model preview route. It remains live on Volcengine while scheduled for retirement and is distinct from Doubao Seed 2.0 Code.
Seed Code Preview is a proprietary model in the Seed family. This page tracks provider routes through Volcengine. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Seed Code Preview yet.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
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 | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
When was Seed Code Preview released?
Seed Code Preview was released on 2025-10-28.
Which providers offer Seed Code Preview?
Seed Code Preview is available from 1 provider: Volcengine.
Cheapest of 1 route · Volcengine