AI Model Atlas / Bytedance seed
Seed 2.1 Turbo
One million input tokens cost $0.50 and one million output tokens $2.50. Context window: 262k tokens, about 437 A4 pages.
What it costs in practice
Pricing per million tokens doesn't mean anything to anyone, so I convert it to three tasks that people actually give to models. The usage assumptions are listed for each row so you can verify them.
| Task | Input | Output | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1500-word articlebrief plus finished text in English | 1,500 tokens | 2,200 tokens | $0.0063 |
| 100 chat queries700 tokens per question and 400 per answer | 70,000 tokens | 40,000 tokens | $0.14 |
| Hour of work with an agentagent reads repository and writes fixes | 250,000 tokens | 30,000 tokens | $0.20 |
Technical details
| Provider | Bytedance seed |
| Modalities | text + image + video → text |
| Context window | 262k tokens (~437 A4 pages) |
| Maximum response | 236k tokens |
| Step-by-step reasoning | yes |
| Tool calling | yes |
| Forced JSON format | yes |
| Knowledge cutoff | not specified |
| Cache read | no data |
| Content moderation | no extra filter |
How it compares to the rest
The database contains 468 models. In terms of input pricing Seed 2.1 Turbo is more expensive than 49 percent of paid models. A longer context window is available in 255 models.
Input price history
2026-09-08 · $0.502026-11-12 · $0.50
The chart shows the price of a million input tokens on consecutive measurement days. History starts on the day I launched the atlas and grows with each day. I don't backfill data.
Alternatives at a similar price
Models from other providers whose cost for the same article comes out closest.
| Model | Input / M | Output / M | 1500-word article | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6.1 Terra Pro (batch)OpenAI | $0.50 | $2.50 | $0.0063 | 1.1M |
| GPT-6.1 Terra (batch)OpenAI | $0.50 | $2.50 | $0.0063 | 1.1M |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)Anthropic | $0.50 | $2.50 | $0.0063 | 200k |
| Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | $0.60 | $2.40 | $0.0062 | 262k |
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