Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision API Pricing
Retired September 21, 2026: Volcano Ark's model-deprecation notice stopped new purchases of doubao-seed-1-6-vision-250815 on July 10, 2026 and shut the service down on September 21, 2026, naming Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite as the migration target. 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 last started the <=32K tier at Y0.80/M input, Y8.00/M output, and Y0.16/M cache-hit input; AI//COST stores that as $0.119/M, $1.1903/M, and $0.0238/M at Y6.7209/USD. Checked by hand against volcengine.com.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision API cost calculator.
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.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision cost on real workloads.
Desktop inspection
Receipt extraction
Short clip reasoning
Image-grounded lookup
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 | $0.119 cache $0.0238 | $1.19 | $0.133 agentic 92/8 | 256K | Vision reasoning and GUI analysis |
| Doubao Seed 1.6 | $0.119 cache $0.0238 | $1.19 | $0.133 retired | 256K | General thinking and multimodal chat |
| Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash | $0.0223 cache $0.0045 | $0.223 | $0.0249 retired | 256K | High-volume low-cost chat |
| Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro | $0.476 cache $0.0952 | $2.38 | $0.341 deprecated · +2.6× | 256K | Complex agent workflows |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 +3.6× · promo | 1M | Mainstream multimodal work |
Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision API pricing FAQ.
Practical Doubao vision-tier pricing questions, with the public CNY ladder separated from workload assumptions.
Q · 01 Is Doubao Seed 1.6 Vision still sold? +
doubao-seed-1-6-vision-250815 on July 10, 2026 and shut it down on September 21, 2026; remaining endpoints were switched to the migration target, Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite, or closed. This page keeps the last price Volcano Ark published for reference.Q · 02 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 $0.119/M, $1.1903/M, and $0.0238/M using Y6.7209/USD. Verified 2026-07-11 - the base input and output rates doubled from the earlier Y0.40/Y4.00.Q · 03 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 · 04 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 · 05 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 · 06 Does this page include tax or enterprise discounts? +
Q · 07 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.