ByteDance
Seed2.1 Turbo
Seed2.1 Turbo is a ByteDance model with 256K context, $0.50 in / $2.50 out per million tokens, last verified October 2, 2026. Open weights: not verified. Public-board scores are linked to the publisher; vendor-only figures stay in the watch-out, not on the board.
ByteDance's Seed2.1 Turbo agentic and multimodal model, with a concrete pinned BytePlus ModelArk deployment for text, image and video understanding.
Recorded profile verification October 2, 2026Individual provider fields may change
| Specification | Seed2.1 Turbo |
|---|---|
| Provider | ByteDance |
| Tier | Balanced |
| Context window | 256K |
| Max output | Not verifiedUnverified |
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.50 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $2.50 |
| Weights | Not verifiedUnverified |
| Parameters | Not verifiedUnverified |
| Reasoning levels | none, minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
| Modalities | text, image, video |
| API model id | dola-seed-2-1-turbo-260628 |
| Released | June 23, 2026 |
Pricing tiers: BytePlus ModelArk lists dola-seed-2-1-turbo at $0.50/$2.50 per MTok for prompts through 256K, with $0.10 cache-hit input and $0.0083 per MTok/hour standard cache storage. Batch and Flex are $0.25/$1.25 with $0.10 cache-hit input. Flex supports implicit caching only and has no additional cache-storage fee. These are BytePlus USD rates, not a verified Seed2.1 Pro or mainland Doubao tariff.
Best for
- Agents
- Coding
- Multimodal work
Watch out
Source receipts
Catalog figures for this model were checked against the following sources.
- ByteDance Seed2.1 family overview and linked Turbo deployment (accessed 2026-10-01)
- ByteDance Seed2.1 release: June 23 (accessed 2026-10-01)
- ByteDance Seed2.1 model card: scoped vendor evaluations (accessed 2026-10-01)
- BytePlus USD standard, context-tier, cache, Batch and Flex prices (accessed 2026-10-01)
- BytePlus exact hosted model IDs and token limits (accessed 2026-10-02)
- BytePlus per-model thinking controls and effort compatibility table (accessed 2026-10-02)
- BytePlus Chat API: output-budget and sampling controls (accessed 2026-10-02)
- BytePlus image input tutorial (accessed 2026-10-02)
- BytePlus video input tutorial (accessed 2026-10-02)
Common questions
Seed2.1 Turbo
Answered from the verified figures on this page rather than general guidance.