Provider pricing

ByteDance Doubao AI API pricing

Doubao is ByteDance's flagship LLM family, served via Volcano Engine. The Doubao 1.5 Pro and Lite models offer some of the lowest per-token rates on the Chinese market — often 10× cheaper than equivalent Western flagships — with strong bilingual performance, 256K context, and native multimodal (text + image + video) input.

Founded2024 (Doubao launch — ByteDance founded 2012)
HeadquartersBeijing, China
Tracked modelsDirectory

Best for

China-market apps and cost-sensitive teams that can use Volcano Engine.

Strengths

  • Among the lowest per-token pricing globally for flagship-class LLMs
  • 256K context with native multimodal (text, image, video) input
  • Strong Chinese-language performance and ByteDance ecosystem integration
  • Volcano Engine offers OpenAI-compatible endpoints