Tier
Major
Headquarters
Beijing, China
Founded
2023
Flagship
Seed
Models tracked
2
Artificial Analysis
Top intelligence
33.5
Artificial Analysis Index
Cheapest model
$0.00
blended /1M
Fastest output
37
tokens / sec
Flagship
ByteDance Seed’s top-scoring model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
Most intelligent model
Doubao Seed Code
Released 2025-11-11
Intelligence
33.5
Coding
31.3
Math
79.3
In $/1M
$0.00
Out $/1M
$0.00
Speed t/s
0
Benchmark breakdown
Models & benchmarks
Every ByteDance Seed model on file — intelligence, coding, price, and speed.
| Model | Released | Intel | Coding | Math | In $/1M | Out $/1M | Speed t/s | Latency s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doubao Seed Code | 2025-11-11 | 33.5 | 31.3 | 79.3 | $0.00 | $0.00 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct | 2025-08-20 | 25.2 | 16.7 | 84.7 | $0.21 | $0.57 | 37 | 1.79 |
Trajectory
ByteDance Seed’s model releases over time, by intelligence.
House strengths
Where ByteDance Seed’s lineup over-indexes, averaged across its models.
Capability profile
Best value
Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
Most intelligence per dollar — 25.2 index at $0.30/1M blended.
84 index points per $1
Media models
Image, video, and speech models, ranked by arena Elo.
| Model | Type | Released | Elo | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreamina Seedance 2.0 720p | image to video | 2026-03 | 1343 | #1 |
| Dreamina Seedance 2.0 720p | text to video | 2026-03 | 1274 | #2 |
| Seedance 1.5 pro | image to video | 2025-12 | 1253 | #28 |
| Seedance 1.0 | image to video | 2025-06 | 1234 | #37 |
| Seedream 4.0 | text to image | 2025-09 | 1194 | #11 |
| Seedream 4.0 | image editing | 2025-09 | 1192 | #18 |
| Seedream 4.5 | image editing | 2025-12 | 1190 | #21 |
| Seedance 1.5 pro | text to video | 2025-12 | 1181 | #34 |
| Seedream 5.0 Lite | image editing | 2026-02 | 1169 | #28 |
| Seedream 4.5 | text to image | 2025-12 | 1165 | #27 |
| Seedream 3.0 | text to image | 2025-04 | 1151 | #33 |
| Seedance 1.0 | text to video | 2025-06 | 1143 | #43 |
Overview
The foundation-model research team at ByteDance (TikTok’s parent), building the Seed and Doubao model families.
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