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ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo

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Seed 2.1 Turbo is a multimodal model from ByteDance Seed for coding and long-horizon agent workflows. It is suited for end-to-end software delivery, multi-step task execution, and understanding visual and video content, with capabilities for planning, debugging, and self-correction.

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In / Out Price
$0.50 / $2.50per 1M
Context
262K
Released
Aug 12, 2026
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Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Pricing

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Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

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Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

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Frequently asked questions

Seed 2.1 Turbo is a multimodal model from ByteDance Seed for coding and long-horizon agent workflows. It is suited for end-to-end software delivery, multi-step task execution, and understanding visual and video content, with capabilities for planning, debugging, and self-correction.

Seed 2.1 Turbo costs $0.50/M input tokens and $2.50/M output tokens.

Seed 2.1 Turbo has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 262,144 completion tokens.

Yes. Seed 2.1 Turbo accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Seed 2.1 Turbo accepts text, images, and video as input and returns text.

Seed-2.0-Code, Seed-2.0-Lite, Seed-2.0-Mini and 2 more are other text models from ByteDance Seed.

Seed 2.1 Turbo was released on August 12, 2026.

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