Doubao API pricing: every model, every rate

By the aitokensai editors · Verified 2026-11-01 Sources: Doubao docs

Doubao is priced by context tier, so the same model name can bill very differently at 32k versus 256k. The table lists each variant separately.

Full rate card

47 billable models in total, 30 of them text models. On those text models: 0 of 30 carry a rate verified against ByteDance's own published pricing, the remaining 30 are gateway rates only. USD per 1M tokens, checked 2026-11-01.

On ByteDance the Out/In column runs 1.8× to 10.0×, median 10.0×, it outweighs the input price as soon as output dominates your bill.

Across 30 priced text models the blended rate spans $0.165 (doubao-seed-2-0-mini-260215) to $24 (doubao-pro-128k) per 1M tokens (a 145× spread). At 145× between its own cheapest and dearest, picking the wrong tier inside ByteDance costs more than picking the wrong vendor.

How these rates were verified

ByteDance publishes no USD rate card we could confirm against, so none of the 47 prices above is cross-checked with vendor documentation — every figure is a gateway rate read from the live rate config on 2026-11-01. That is the reason no discount percentage appears anywhere on this page: without a published list to compare against, a "saving" would be a number we made up. Read these as an observed snapshot of what the endpoint charges today, and treat the reason to route ByteDance through one endpoint as access and consolidated billing rather than a discount.

What ByteDance costs at three usage levels

Priced on doubao-seed-2-0-mini-260215 at $0.015 in / $0.15 out; doubao-seed-2-0-pro-260215 at $0.24 in / $1.2 out per 1M tokens, with a 5:1 input-to-output ratio, roughly what an interactive workload produces.

The first column is this vendor's lowest-cost tier; the second is the model closest to its median rate, which is nearer what a real deployment bills. Swap in your own token split in the calculator.

Same budget, other vendors

3 models from 3 other vendors priced within 35% of doubao-seed-2-0-pro-260215 on a blended rate (the cheapest, the dearest and one in between). This is the horizontal check a ByteDance rate page on its own cannot give you.

Blended comparison (input + output per 1M tokens). Price is one axis, none of these is a ByteDance model, so treat them as candidates to test side by side at this budget rather than drop-in substitutes.

Why the output rate decides the bill

Across the 23 priced ByteDance text models, the output rate runs from 1.8× to 10.0× the input rate, with a median of 10.0×. On ByteDance that multiple lands on the smaller half of the token count and the larger half of the bill, because output is what a chat or agent turn actually produces.

Worked out: at a 10.0× multiple, a job whose token count is 80% input still spends 71% of its cost on the output it generates. Setting ByteDance beside any other vendor on the input rate alone hides that.

What ByteDance is good at

Doubao is widely used for high-volume Chinese-language workloads.

Routing these rates into your tools

Every model above is reachable from the same OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so the rates on this page apply wherever you already work. These are the tools we have profiled end to end — ByteDance models included:

Every one of these takes the same two values, a base URL and a key, and none of them require changing your code beyond where the client is constructed. Pointed at ByteDance, that is the whole change. The differences that matter are in each tool's defaults, which is what each guide covers.

Other vendors

Every rate card here is built the same way, from the same price snapshot (2026-11-01), so the numbers are comparable across vendors:

Anthropic · OpenAI · Google · DeepSeek · Alibaba · xAI · Zhipu · Moonshot · Meta · MiniMax

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