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ByteDance · API-only (closed weights)

Doubao Seed 1.8

Doubao Seed 1.8 is an API-only (closed weights) language model from ByteDance, released December 18, 2025.

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) and vision–language models (VLMs) has enabled strong performance on foundational capabilities, including natural language understanding, reasoning, code generation, and multimodal perception.

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Lab
ByteDance
Released
December 18, 2025
Weights
API-only (closed weights)
Parameters
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Context
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Price / M tokens
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Epoch ECI
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Benchmark results

Epoch AI has not published results for Doubao Seed 1.8 yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.

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Data updated Thu, 12 Nov 2026 09:42 UTC. Benchmarks, Capabilities Index and model announcements: Epoch AI, “Capabilities & benchmarking” and “Data on AI models” (CC BY 4.0); category scores are ModelTape's own fit on Epoch's results. Releases and prices: models.dev (MIT). Sizes and quantizations: Hugging Face. “Runs on” figures are estimates from model size, quantization and memory bandwidth (±30–50%).
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