Volcengine Ark is a cloud platform that resells models with its own infrastructure, billing and regional hosting. Its prices tend to track the first-party rate, with the platform's own quotas and service-level terms attached.
It lists 16 models on this page. Coverage spans text and chat (16). The lowest-priced model hosted here is Seed 1.6 Flash.
Volcengine Ark is the lowest paid channel for 5 models that have at least two competing paid hosts, which is where its pricing genuinely leads rather than being the only option.
| Cheapest here? | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed 1.6 Flashdoubao-seed-1-6-flash-250828 | $0.022 | $0.22 | $0.0045 | 256,000 | Lowest anywhere |
| Seed 2.0 Minidoubao-seed-2-0-mini-260428 | $0.03 | $0.30 | $0.0059 | 256,000 | Lowest anywhere |
| Seed Characterdoubao-seed-character-260628 | $0.12 | $0.30 | $0.024 | 256,000 | Lowest anywhere |
| GLM-5.3-Flashglm-5-3-flash-260828 | $0.12 | $0.42 | $0.034 | 1,000,000 | 4.1× pricier |
| Seed 2.0 Litedoubao-seed-2-0-lite-260428 | $0.089 | $0.53 | $0.018 | 256,000 | Lowest anywhere |
| Seed 1.6doubao-seed-1-6-251015 | $0.12 | $1.19 | $0.024 | 256,000 | 2.4× pricier |
| Seed 1.6 Visiondoubao-seed-1-6-vision-250815 | $0.12 | $1.19 | $0.024 | 256,000 | 1.0× pricier |
| Seed 1.8doubao-seed-1-8-251228 | $0.12 | $1.19 | $0.024 | 256,000 | 2.4× pricier |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731deepseek-v4-flash-ga-260731 | $0.45 | $1.34 | $0.015 | 1,000,000 | 15.3× pricier |
| Seed 2.1 Turbodoubao-seed-2-1-turbo-260628 | $0.45 | $2.23 | $0.089 | 256,000 | 1.3× pricier |
| Seed 2.0 Codedoubao-seed-2-0-code-preview-260215 | $0.47 | $2.37 | $0.095 | 262,144 | 1.1× pricier |
| Seed 2.0 Prodoubao-seed-2-0-pro-260215 | $0.47 | $2.37 | $0.095 | 256,000 | Lowest anywhere |
| Seed Evolvingdoubao-seed-evolving | $0.89 | $4.45 | $0.18 | 256,000 | 1.0× pricier |
| Seed 2.1 Prodoubao-seed-2-1-pro-260628 | $0.89 | $4.45 | $0.18 | 256,000 | 1.3× pricier |
| GLM-5.2glm-5-2-260617 | $1.19 | $4.16 | $0.30 | 1,000,000 | 4.0× pricier |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813deepseek-v4-pro-ga-260813 | $1.34 | $4.01 | $0.045 | 1,000,000 | 4.3× pricier |