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Doubao 1.5 Lite 32K API Pricing

Doubao 1.5 Lite 32K is ByteDance's older low-cost text tier for compact prompts and legacy routes. Volcano Ark lists Y0.30/M input, Y0.60/M output, and Y0.06/M cache-hit input, which AI//COST stores as $0.0446/M, $0.0893/M, and $0.009/M at Y6.7209/USD. Checked by hand against volcengine.com.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.0446/M
Original Y0.30/M CNY source
Output - per 1M tokens
$0.0893/M
Original Y0.60/M CNY source
Cached input - per 1M tokens
$0.009/M
Original Y0.06/M -81%
Effective - agentic blend
$0.0213/M
92/8 split - 82% cache
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with Doubao 1.5 Lite 32K's public Volcano Ark rate. Use it for archive comparisons, migration planning, and low-context text budget checks.

$ /mo
Workload split
Prompt cache hit rate
Tokens you can process
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Words equivalent (English)
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Effective rate
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Open full calculator (all models · share URL · CSV) →
§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Real-world presets.

CHATBOT

Support turn

$0.00011/turn
3k in - 700 out~919,675 turns/$100
SUMMARY

Ticket summary

$0.00006/ticket
2k in - 300 out~1,735,930 summaries/$100
CLASSIFY

Text routing

$0.00002/record
1k in - 100 out~4,108,801 records/$100
RAG

Short-context lookup

$0.00017/query
5k in - 1k out~601,178 lookups/$100
§ 03 / TOKENIZER

Paste text. See tokens. See cost.

What's a token →
Calibrated · measured on the vendor's tokenizer · 2026-06-10 Auto-counts as you type

Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.

Characters 503
Words 82
Tokens (estimated) 97 tokens
Cost as input · uncached $0.000004 USD
Cost as output · uncached $0.00001 USD
Cost as cached input $0.000001 USD
§ 04 / SHELF

Up against the shelf.

All models →
Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Doubao 1.5 Lite 32K Current $0.0446 cache $0.009 $0.0893 $0.0213 agentic 92/8 32K Legacy 32K budget chat
Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash $0.0223 cache $0.0045 $0.223 $0.0249 deprecated · +17% 256K High-volume low-cost chat
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite $0.0446 cache $0.009 $0.357 $0.0427 deprecated · +2.0× 256K Budget multimodal support
Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini $0.0298 cache $0.006 $0.298 $0.0333 +56% 256K Fast low-latency routing
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite $0.30 cache $0.03 $2.50 $0.272 +13× 1M Budget multimodal workloads

Frequently asked.

Practical Doubao budget-tier pricing questions, with the live public row separated from migration assumptions.

Q · 01 What is Doubao 1.5 Lite 32K priced at? +
Volcano Ark lists Y0.30/M input, Y0.60/M output, and Y0.06/M cache-hit input for this legacy row. AI//COST stores that as $0.0446/M, $0.0893/M, and $0.009/M using Y6.7209/USD.
Q · 02 Is this still a good option for new traffic? +
Mostly for legacy compatibility, not for new builds. Newer ByteDance rows such as Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini offer more context and newer capabilities while staying in the same cost neighborhood.
Q · 03 How large is the cache discount? +
The public row shows cache-hit input at Y0.06/M against a base input price of Y0.30/M. That is roughly an 80% reduction for repeated prompt segments.
Q · 04 Does this row have context-based tiering? +
No. Unlike newer Seed-family rows, this legacy 32K model is published as a flat 32K tier rather than a 32K/128K/256K ladder. That is one reason it appears simple but less flexible.
Q · 05 Are taxes and enterprise discounts included here? +
No. This page stores the public Volcano Ark list price before tax, enterprise rebates, or contract-specific terms. The USD layer is only for easier cross-vendor comparison.
Q · 06 What does the $0.02 effective figure mean? +
It is AI//COST's standard 92/8 blended workload with an 82% cache-hit assumption. That makes the public rate easier to compare with other model rows without claiming a different vendor list price.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder · AI//COST · Prices checked by hand against volcengine.com · Last verified May 23, 2026
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