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Seed 2.1 Turbo

Seed 2.1 Turbo is ByteDance’s multimodal language model supporting text, image, and video inputs with text output. It offers a 262,144-token context window, reasoning, function calling, and structured JSON output.

TEXTREASONINGREASONINGSTRUCTURED-OUTPUTTOOL-USEVIDEO-INPUTVISION
262.1K
CONTEXT WINDOW
-
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
$0.5
INPUT PRICE / 1M TOKENS
$2.50
OUTPUT PRICE / 1M TOKENS
QUICKSTART

Call it in one request.

OpenAI-compatible: change the base URL, and the setup is complete.

curl https://enterprise.blackbox.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLACKBOX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "blackboxai/bytedance/seed-2.1-turbo",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }],
    "stream": true
  }'
SPECIFICATIONS

The full spec sheet.

Context, pricing, modalities, routing, and deployment: everything Seed 2.1 Turbo supports, in one table.

MODEL ID
blackboxai/bytedance/seed-2.1-turbo
DEVELOPED BY
ByteDance
MODEL TYPE
Text
RELEASED
Jun 23, 2026
CONTEXT WINDOW
262.1K
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
-
INPUT MODALITIES
text, image, video
OUTPUT MODALITIES
text
INPUT PRICE
$0.5 / 1M tokens
OUTPUT PRICE
$2.50 / 1M tokens
CACHE READ
$0.1 / 1M tokens
REASONING
Supported
DATA RETENTION
Standard retention
DEDICATED DEPLOYMENT
Not available (closed-weight model)
SUPPORTED PARAMETERS
max_tokenstemperaturestoptoolstool_choicereasoninginclude_reasoningresponse_formatstructured_outputs