ByteDance
ByteDance ranks #14 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 3 ranked models. Its best model is Dola Seed 2.0 Pro at 58.5 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in coding. Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is priced at $0.300 per million tokens blended. The fastest is Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct at 38 tokens per second. 1 of its 14 models ship open weights. It has shipped 4 dated releases, roughly one every 83 days; the last was 14 Feb 2026, so the next would be due between 4 Apr 2026 and 10 Jun 2026 on that pattern.
ByteDance Seed builds the Doubao/Seed models powering the Doubao assistant, one of China's most used chatbots.
- Provider rank
- #14
- by best model
- Best index
- 58.5
- Dola Seed 2.0 Pro
- Ranked models
- 3
- 1 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
- $0.300/M
- Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
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Next release
Over the last two years ByteDance shipped 4 distinct models, one every 83 days on median. The latest arrived on 14 Feb 2026.
If the cadence holds, the next one lands between 4 Apr 2026 and 10 Jun 2026.
An estimate from past release dates only. It knows nothing about roadmaps or announcements.
Fastest ranked model: Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct at 38 tok/s.
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Every ByteDance model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dola Seed 2.0 Pro | 58.5±1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-22 |
| 2 | Doubao-Seed-Code | 50.7±5 | – | – | – | 256k | 2025-11-11 | 2025-11-11 · stale |
| 3 | Seed-OSS-36B-Instructopen ↗ | 46.8±4 | $0.300 | 38 | 56 s | 512k | 2025-08-20 | 2025-08-20 · stale |
| 4 | Seed 1.6 Thinkingthinking | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2025-06-25 · stale |
| 5 | Seed2.1 Pro | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-23 |
| 6 | Ui Tars 1.5 7B | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 7 | ByteVideoLLM-14B | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-10-13 | – |
| 8 | Seed 1.6 | – | $0.688 | 43 | 0.77 s | 262k | – | – |
| 9 | Seed 1.6 Flash | – | $0.131 | 62 | 0.54 s | 262k | – | – |
| 10 | Seed 2.1 Turbo | – | $1.00 | 44 | 1.81 s | 262k | – | – |
| 11 | Seed-2.0-Code | – | $1.13 | 57 | 0.59 s | 262k | 2026-02-14 | – |
| 12 | Seed-2.0-Lite | – | $0.688 | 55 | 1.19 s | 262k | – | – |
| 13 | Seed-2.0-Mini | – | $0.175 | 103 | 0.40 s | 262k | 2026-02-14 | – |
| 14 | video-SALMONN 2+ | – | – | – | – | – | 2025-06-18 | – |
Latest news
- China's ByteDance sets up AI safety team, launches global hiring driveReuters · 15 Oct 2026
- ByteDance Joins AI Elite in Race to Perfect World ModelsBloomberg.com · 7 Sept 2026
- Motion Picture Association Strikes Deal with ByteDance for IP Protections in AI Video, Image ModelsVariety · 17 Aug 2026
- ByteDance Pushes Back on Claim That 55% of China's AI Tokens Go to Short-Form Dramas, Says Video Generation Is Just 10% of ComputeBigGo Finance · 22 Oct 2026
- ByteDance Challenges Claim That AI Dramas Consume 55% of China’s TokensCaixin Global · 21 Oct 2026
- TikTok CEO sees major scientific breakthroughs from AI within three yearsCNBC · 12 Oct 2026
- ByteDance’s Founder Rules Out Distillation on AI ModelsThe Information · 5 Aug 2026
- ByteDance’s New AI Video Model, Seedance 2.5, May Launch as Soon as This WeekCNET · 6 Jul 2026