Rolling ByteDance Seed model for rapidly updated reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities
Seed Evolving by bytedance-seed is offered by 3 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 2 of them. Its reference price is $0.891 per 1M input tokens and $4.45 per 1M output tokens. It also has 1 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 256,000 tokens, with an output limit of 256,000 tokens. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and Video.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volcengine Ark Coding Plan doubao-seed-evolving | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | — | 256,000 | 256,000 | ||
| Ofox volcengine/doubao-seed-evolving | Gateway | $0.884 | $4.42 | $0.177 | $0.0025 | 256,000 | 256,000 | |
| Volcengine Ark doubao-seed-evolving | Gateway | $0.891 | $4.45 | $0.178 | — | 256,000 | 256,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
1 more channels offer $0 (Volcengine Ark Coding Plan); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.