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Seed 2.1 Pro
CLOSEDByteDance · Doubao Seed family · released Jun 24, 2026
ByteDance's newest flagship (successor to Seed 2.0 Pro from Feb 2026), positioned by ByteDance as competitive with Claude Opus 4.6 at far lower cost; not in corpus (corpus's newest ByteDance entry is Doubao-Seed-1.6 from 2025-06-11). Pricing converted from RMB (6/30 per million input/output) at ~7.1 RMB/USD.
ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic
2665.9
Elo · rank #9
Parameters
Undisclosed
Active params
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Context
256K tokens
Architecture
Proprietary deep-thinking agent model, architecture undisclosed
License
Proprietary
Languages
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API price (in/out)
$0.85 / $4.15
Modalities
text · vision
Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
best: GPT-5.6 · 52.7%
best: GPT-5.6 · 92.5%
best: Kimi K3 · 91.2%
best: Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh) · 88.4%
best: this model · 87.9%
best: Claude Sonnet 5 · 57.4%
best: this model · 92.6%
best: this model · 90.7%
best: Claude Opus 4.7 · 85.5%
best: this model · 78.8%
best: Qwen3.7-Max · 73.6%
best: GPT-5.6 · 88.8%
best: this model · 89.2%
Run it locally
Closed weights — available via API only. No local deployment.
Input / M tok
$0.85
Output / M tok
$4.15
API price $0.85/$4.15 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)