Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision API Pricing
Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision is ByteDance's vision-first Seed 1.6 tier for GUI analysis, image reasoning, and multimodal workflows. The official Volcano Ark table starts the <=32K tier at Y0.80/M input, Y8.00/M output, and Y0.16/M cache-hit input; AI//COST stores that as $0.113/M, $1.127/M, and $0.023/M at Y7.1/USD. Pulled directly from volcengine.com daily.
Run the numbers.
Live calculator pre-loaded with Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision's baseline tier. Adjust input length assumptions if you expect the 32K-128K or 128K-256K price bands instead of the default <=32K row.
Real-world presets.
Desktop inspection
Receipt extraction
Short clip reasoning
Image-grounded lookup
Paste text. See tokens. See cost.
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.
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision Current | $0.11 cache $0.02 | $1.13 | $0.13 agentic 92/8 | 256K | Vision reasoning and GUI analysis |
| Doubao Seed 1.6 | $0.11 cache $0.02 | $1.13 | $0.13 same price, text-first | 256K | General thinking and multimodal chat |
| Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash | $0.02 cache $0.00 | $0.21 | $0.02 budget alternative | 256K | High-volume low-cost chat |
| Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro | $0.45 cache $0.09 | $2.25 | $0.32 current flagship | 256K | Complex agent workflows |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.30 cache $0.03 | $2.50 | $0.27 cross-vendor peer | 1M | Multimodal budget work |
Frequently asked.
Practical Doubao vision-tier pricing questions, with the public CNY ladder separated from workload assumptions.
Q · 01 What is Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision priced at? +
Y0.80/M input, Y8.00/M output, and Y0.16/M cache-hit input. AI//COST stores that as $0.113/M, $1.127/M, and $0.023/M using Y7.1/USD. Verified 2026-07-11 - the base input and output rates doubled from the earlier Y0.40/Y4.00.Q · 02 Does the price change above 32K input length? +
32K-128K and 128K-256K bands above the <=32K baseline used on this page. Check the vendor table for the exact higher-band rates for your prompt length.Q · 03 How large is the cache-hit discount? +
Y0.16/M against a base input price of Y0.80/M - an 80% discount. The cache-hit rate stayed at Y0.16/M when the base rates doubled in July 2026.Q · 04 How does it compare with Seed 2.0 Pro? +
$0.451/M input and $2.254/M output on its baseline tier. Seed 1.6 Vision is cheaper and more focused on mid-tier multimodal reasoning.Q · 05 Does this page include tax or enterprise discounts? +
Q · 06 What does the $0.13 effective number represent? +
92/8 blended workload using an 82% cache-hit assumption on input. It is a planning shortcut, not a second vendor list price.