ByteDance Seed

Seed and Doubao models

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

GPQA Diamond
76
Humanity’s Last Exam
13
SciCode
41
τ²-Bench (agentic)
58
Terminal-Bench Hard
27
IFBench
51

Models & benchmarks

Every ByteDance Seed model on file — intelligence, coding, price, and speed.

ModelReleasedIntelCodingMathIn $/1MOut $/1MSpeed t/sLatency s
Doubao Seed Code2025-11-1133.531.379.3$0.00$0.0000.00
Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct2025-08-2025.216.784.7$0.21$0.57371.79
Via Artificial Analysis

Trajectory

ByteDance Seed’s model releases over time, by intelligence.

Aug 2025 · 25.2▲ +8.3 indexNov 2025 · 33.5

House strengths

Where ByteDance Seed’s lineup over-indexes, averaged across its models.

Media models

Image, video, and speech models, ranked by arena Elo.

ModelTypeReleasedEloRank
Dreamina Seedance 2.0 720pimage to video2026-031343#1
Dreamina Seedance 2.0 720ptext to video2026-031274#2
Seedance 1.5 proimage to video2025-121253#28
Seedance 1.0image to video2025-061234#37
Seedream 4.0text to image2025-091194#11
Seedream 4.0image editing2025-091192#18
Seedream 4.5image editing2025-121190#21
Seedance 1.5 protext to video2025-121181#34
Seedream 5.0 Liteimage editing2026-021169#28
Seedream 4.5text to image2025-121165#27
Seedream 3.0text to image2025-041151#33
Seedance 1.0text to video2025-061143#43

Overview

The foundation-model research team at ByteDance (TikTok’s parent), building the Seed and Doubao model families.

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