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Seed 2.1 Turbo

by Bytedance SeedReleased 12 August 2026

Seed 2.1 Turbo is the smaller model of the Seed 2.1 pair. Give it a coding task or a multi-step job as text, with screenshots or video if useful, and it plans the work, edits files and uses your connected tools across a long run, keeping about 260 pages in mind and replying up to about 235 pages. Pick it for building a feature end to end. For frontend and multilingual coding inside a coding agent, Seed 2.0 Code is the specialist.

TakesTextImagesVideo
GivesText

What it costs

You pay for what each request uses. No subscription, no minimum.

≈ 0,58 DA per message3 000 DA buys about 5 100 messages

One message, the ordinary use

1 000 tokens sent× 166,42 DA per 1M0,17 DA
500 tokens back× 832,09 DA per 1M0,42 DA
Total≈ 0,58 DA

Every rate

Meter↑ you send↓ comes back
Text tokens166,42 DA832,09 DA

per 1M tokens

Answer a quick question≈ 0,23 DA
Read an invoice photo and pull out the total≈ 0,33 DA
Reply to a customer email≈ 0,43 DA
Review a pull request of about 400 lines≈ 2,00 DA
Summarise a 20-page report≈ 2,91 DA
When you pay
After the answer, from your balance. Nothing is held.
Why it varies
A longer question or a longer answer costs more.
After each one
The exact charge shows on the request.
DepositDeposits from 50 DA, with Edahabia or CIB.

Where your request runs

One company runs this model. OpenDunes sends every request to it. DA per 1M tokens: ↑ what you send · ↓ what comes back.

Seed…
↑ Sent, per 1M
166,42 DA
↓ Back, per 1M
832,09 DA
Latency
…
Throughput
…
Provider↑ Sent↓ BackLatencyThroughputUptime
Seed166,42 DA832,09 DA………

You pay the price of the provider that served your request. Prices read 15:21 · speed over the last 30 minutes · uptime over 3 days.

See it in action

Real requests, real replies. Try any of them yourself — one click, pre-filled.

Understands images
You send

What's the total on this invoice, and when is it due?

invoice-scan.jpg · photo
It replied

The total is 42 300,00 DA, due 5 September 2026. Worth a double-check: the handwritten day could read as 8 instead of 3.

Try in Chat Lab
Structured output
You send

Turn this customer email into JSON with intent, urgency and order_id.

customer-email.txt
It replied

{ "intent": "refund", "urgency": "high", "order_id": "OD-58421" }

Try in Chat Lab

Try your own request — same model, pre-selected.

Open Chat Lab

Call it in code

Swap the base URL and the key. Your OpenAI code runs unchanged.

POST /v1/chat/completions
Base URL
https://opendunes.com/v1
Model ID
bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://opendunes.com/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["OPENDUNES_API_KEY"],
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Two lines to welcome a shop in Oran."}],
)

print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Runs this request once on your balance.

Parameters you can send

Standard OpenAI fields, grouped by what they control. Anything not listed is accepted and ignored.

Shaping the reply

How long, how varied, where to stop.

max_tokenstemperaturetop_pstopfrequency_penalty

Reasoning

Let it think before answering — and see the thinking.

reasoninginclude_reasoning

Structured output

Get JSON you can parse instead of prose.

response_formatstructured_outputs

Tools

Let the model call your functions.

toolstool_choice

Questions about Seed 2.1 Turbo

  • How much does Seed 2.1 Turbo cost in dinars?

    About 0,58 DA per message. ↑ 166,42 DA · ↓ 832,09 DA per 1M tokens.

  • Is Seed 2.1 Turbo free? Can I try it?

    No. You pay per use from your balance, with no subscription. Try it in Chat at the same price.

  • What is Seed 2.1 Turbo best for?

    Seed 2.1 Turbo is the smaller model of the Seed 2.1 pair. Give it a coding task or a multi-step job as text, with screenshots or video if useful, and it plans the work, edits files and uses your connected tools across a long run, keeping about 260 pages in mind and replying up to about 235 pages. Pick it for building a feature end to end. For frontend and multilingual coding inside a coding agent, Seed 2.0 Code is the specialist.

  • How do I pay for Seed 2.1 Turbo without an international card?

    Deposit dinars with your Edahabia or CIB card. Every model, Seed 2.1 Turbo included, is paid from that balance. No foreign card, no conversion.

  • Does Seed 2.1 Turbo work in Arabic, French or Darja?

    Bytedance Seed names no languages for Seed 2.1 Turbo. Arabic, French and Darja: not stated.

  • Can it read PDFs, images or a whole book?

    It reads text, images and video. Up to 262K tokens in one request, about 260 pages. It writes up to 177 000 words at once.

  • Is Seed 2.1 Turbo open source?

    No. Bytedance Seed has not published its weights.

  • Who makes Seed 2.1 Turbo, and when was it released?

    Bytedance Seed. Released 12 August 2026.

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