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Seed 2.1 Turbo Pricing

ByteDance Seed · bytedance-seed-seed-2-1-turbo

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Input / 1M tokens

$0.500

Output / 1M tokens

$2.50

Context window

262,144 tokens

≈ 350 pages of text

Max output

235,929 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0016

1,000 requests / month$1.60/mo 10,000 requests / month$16.00/mo 100,000 requests / month$160.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Seed 2.1 Turbo preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

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What it excels at

Handles high-volume text and vision workloads with large context capacity and low input cost, making it suitable for batch processing and retrieval-augmented tasks.

The business tradeoff

Limited ecosystem maturity and potentially inconsistent reasoning depth on complex multi-step problems relative to more established providers.

Cheaper from ByteDance Seed

Seed 1.6ByteDance Seed$0.0011/ typical request Seed-2.0-LiteByteDance Seed$0.0011/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI$0.0007/ typical request Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic$0.0032/ typical request Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle$0.0054/ typical request

Head-to-head

Seed 2.1 Turbo vs GPT-5.4 Nano →Seed 2.1 Turbo vs Claude Haiku 4.5 →Seed 2.1 Turbo vs Gemini 3.5 Flash →

Vendor list rates, as of Aug 12, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.