Seed Character
ByteDance Seed · released 2026-06-23
No price from the maker itself is on record for Seed Character. The lowest of 3 providers is Volcengine Ark: $0.11875 per 1M input tokens and $0.29687 per 1M output tokens (as of 2026-11-12). Context window: 256K tokens, up to 256K output tokens per request.
Price by providerUSD per 1M tokens
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Volcengine ArkLowestTiered pricingdoubao-seed-character-260628 | $0.11875 | $0.29687 | $0.02375 | LowestTiered pricing | Official docs |
NNanoGPTbytedance/ | $0.15 | $0.37 | $0.03 | Official docs | |
OOfoxvolcengine/ | $0.177 | $0.884 | $0.024 | Official docs |
Providers are those listed by models.dev. This site has not vetted them one by one; each provider's own page has the binding price.
About
ByteDance Seed model optimized for character-driven dialogue and consistent conversational behavior
Description from models.dev.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Context
- 256K
- Max output
- 256K
- Input
- Text, Image, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Open weights
- No
- Released
- 2026-06-23
Source
Prices and specs come from models.dev (MIT licence), updated 2026-11-12. Each provider's name links to its official docs. A provider priced at 0 usually includes the model in a subscription; it is not necessarily a free API.