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title: "ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/bytedance-seed__seed-2-1-turbo/
description: "ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo: $0.500/M in, $2.50/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo: $0.500/M in, $2.50/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Seed 2.1 Turbo

ByteDance · released 2026-08-12

 $1.00 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.500 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.50 /M |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text, image, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Seed 2.1 Turbo is a multimodal model from ByteDance Seed for coding and long-horizon agent workflows. It is suited for end-to-end software delivery, multi-step task execution, and understanding visual and...