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Seed Character

ByteDance Seed model optimized for character-driven dialogue and consistent conversational behavior

doubao-seed-character-260628
Type
Text
Quality
Not rated yet
Context window
256,000 tokens
Max output
256,000 tokens
Input price
$0.12 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.30 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.024 / 1M tokens
Cache write
—
Released
Jun 23, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
—
Takes in
Text, Image, Video
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
Yes
File attachments
Yes
Access
Paid
License
Proprietary
Rarity
Common
Set number
931/1044
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Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by ByteDance’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: www.volcengine.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Seed Character, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

No public leaderboard lists Seed Character yet. Epoch AI and LMArena cover most chat, image, and video models from the big labs; embeddings, speech, and small open models mostly go unrated.

Where to run it

2 providers sell Seed Character through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
Volcengine ArkOfficialCheapest paiddoubao-seed-character-260628$0.12$0.30256K
Ofoxvolcengine/doubao-seed-character$0.18$0.88256K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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