Doubao SEED 2.1 Turbo Pricing
ByteDance · The faster, cheaper tier of the Doubao SEED 2.1 family. A 256K context window an
Save up to 70% on Doubao SEED 2.1 Turbo API cost
Same model, same quality — pay less per token than the official API. Pay-as-you-go, no credit card required.
Other ByteDance Models
Doubao SEED 2.1 ProDoubao SEED 2.0 ProDoubao SEED 2.0 LiteDoubao SEED 2.0 MiniDoubao SEED 2.1 Turbo Pricing Context
Pricing position within ByteDance
Doubao SEED 2.1 Turbo sits in the middle of ByteDance's pricing at $0.42/1M input — 24% above the lineup average ($0.03 cheapest, $0.83 most expensive). 2 siblings cost less, 1 cost more. This mid-tier positioning makes it a sensible default when you're unsure which variant to pick.
When Doubao SEED 2.1 Turbo is worth the cost
Doubao SEED 2.1 Turbo is used for general-purpose text tasks — chat, summarization, drafting, classification, and extraction. It handles the standard text-in/text-out case reliably. For specialized workloads (coding, reasoning, vision), a purpose-tuned sibling may perform better.
Cost vs sibling models
What makes Doubao SEED 2.1 Turbo different from sibling models: compared to Doubao SEED 2.1 Pro ($0.41/1M more expensive, same 256K context); Doubao SEED 2.0 Lite ($0.34/1M cheaper, 128K vs 256K context (smaller)); Doubao SEED 2.0 Mini ($0.39/1M cheaper, 128K vs 256K context (smaller)). Choose Doubao SEED 2.1 Turbo when a balanced cost-to-capability ratio fits your workload.
Real-world cost scenarios
Real-world deployments: customer support chatbots, content drafting and summarization, classification pipelines, and extraction workflows. Doubao SEED 2.1 Turbo handles the standard text-in/text-out case reliably — route specialized tasks (vision, coding, reasoning) to purpose-tuned siblings.