ByteDance
44 models across 13 families · Latest: Seedream 5.0 Pro (2026-07)
TikTok data enhances AI realism
ByteDance's portfolio covers 40 active models across 13 current families, spanning coding, rag, and agents. Open a model detail page to compare provider routes and sourced benchmarks.
Covers 7 workload areas across 40 active tracked models; last verified 2026-10-17.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents across this lab's releases
- Comparing model families before committing to a flagship
- Migration and pricing follow-ups across 40 tracked models
Do not use it for
- Choosing a hosting provider without opening a model page for price ladders
Active models
40
Current models from this lab, excluding deprecated ones
Active families
13
Current model families from this lab
Open catalog
5 open
5 open source / 0 open weights
Lowest output price
$0.147 /1M
Cheapest tracked output across active models, per 1M tokens
Latest dated release
2026-07-08
Seedream 5.0 Pro
Freshness
2026-10-17
Researched 1d ago
Information
Release cadence
- Dated releases
- 5
- Latest model
- Seedream 5.0 Pro
- Latest date
- 2026-07-08
Where this lab wins
- Coding: 9 tracked models with SWE-bench / HumanEval-style scores.
- RAG: 8 tracked models with ruler / needle retrieval benchmarks.
- Agentic: 10 tracked models with BFCL, tau-bench, and SWE-bench tool-use coverage.
- Long-context: 14 tracked models with context-token or InfiniteBench-class signal.
Flagship quality / price signal
- Flagship
- Seed 2.0 Lite
- Selection source
- Best sourced coding Q/$
- Coding grade
- C
- Benchmark / output price
- swe-bench-verified 73.5 · $2.00/1M
About
ByteDance, established in 2012 by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo in Beijing, China, began its journey focusing on AI-powered news aggregation with the app Toutiao. Rapidly expanding its horizons, the company ventured into the short-form video domain with Douyin for the Chinese market and TikTok for international audiences. This foresight in leveraging AI-driven recommendation systems has catapulted ByteDance into the upper echelons of global tech enterprises. Recently, ByteDance has made notable strides in generative AI and large language models (LLMs), reflecting a significant shift towards advanced AI research and development.
Doubao models
- ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.0 Code
- ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite
- ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini
- ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro
- Doubao Embedding Vision
- Doubao 1.5 Lite 32K
- Doubao 1.5 Pro 256K
- Doubao 1.5 Pro 32K
- Doubao 1.5 Pro Vision 32K
- Doubao Vision Lite 32K
- Doubao Vision Pro 32K
- Doubao Lite 32K
- Doubao Pro 256K
- Doubao Pro 128K
- Doubao Pro 32K
- Doubao Lite 128K
- Doubao
Featured models
| Model | Released | Context | Input price ($/1M) | Output price ($/1M) | License | Openness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedream 5.0 Pro | 2026-07-08 | - | - | - | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Seed 2.1 Pro | 2026-06-24 | - | $0.83 | $4.14 | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Seed 2.1 Turbo | 2026-06-24 | - | $0.41 | $2.07 | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Model families
Recent releases
- Seedream 5.0 Pro- 2026-07-08
- Seed 2.1 Pro- 2026-06-24
- Seed 2.1 Turbo- 2026-06-24
- Seed 2.1 Preview- 2026-06-19
- Seedance 2.0 Mini- 2026-06-15
Top comparisons
- ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro vs Claude Mythos Preview340
- ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.0 Code vs Claude Mythos Preview191
- ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro vs Phi-4 Mini Flash Reasoning79
- Claude 1.3 vs Doubao Pro 256K34
- GPT-4 vs Seed-OSS 36B Instruct15
- Claude 1.3 vs Seed-OSS 36B Instruct14
- Together AI - Gemma 3n-e4B vs Seed-OSS 36B Instruct13
- GPT-2 vs Seed-OSS 36B Instruct13
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Last reviewed: 2026-10-17. Data sourced from public lab announcements and provider documentation.