Using Seed 2.1 Turbo on Volcengine

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Volcengine and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Volcengine SDK or REST API to call doubao-seed-2-1-turbo-260628 — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.41/1M input, $2.07/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

About Volcengine

Volcengine Model Ark is ByteDance's hosted foundation-model platform. It exposes Doubao text and multimodal models, Seedream image models, Seedance video models, and selected third-party families through authenticated public APIs; the catalog also labels live routes that are approaching retirement.

Volcengine is ByteDance's cloud platform offering comprehensive AI APIs including Doubao LLMs for multimodal generation and inference with Chinese market optimization.

Pricing on Volcengine

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.