How much does Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo costs about $525.00 per month at the provider's official prices (verified) ($0.50 per 1M input tokens, $2.50 per 1M output tokens).

Does Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo support prompt caching?

Yes. Cached input costs $0.10 per 1M tokens, compared with $0.50 for regular input.

How long is Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo's context window?

Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo accepts up to 256,000 tokens (256K) of context and returns up to 256,000 tokens per response.

Does Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo have a batch price?

Yes. Asynchronous batch requests cost $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $1.25 per 1M output tokens.

Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo API Pricing

ByteDance Seed (BytePlus) · 256K context · API model ID dola-seed-2-1-turbo-260628

Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo by ByteDance Seed (BytePlus) API pricing: $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens (verified against the official pricing page, Oct 9, 2026).

Prices

Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.50
Output	$2.50
Cache read	$0.10
Cache write	Not published
Batch input	$0.25
Batch output	$1.25

Verified against the provider's official pricing page on Oct 9, 2026. Official pricing page

The same official pricing page also bills cache storage at $0.0083 per 1M tokens per hour. It is not included in the prices or cost estimates here.

Estimated monthly cost

$525.00

per month

per day: $17.50
per request: $0.00175

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$525.00/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$787.50/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$420.00/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 256,000 tokens
Max output: 256,000 tokens
Input: text, image, video
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: Not published
Open weights: No
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: Yes
Structured outputs: Yes

Capabilities and limits as listed in ByteDance Seed (BytePlus)'s model list.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo costs about $525.00 per month at the provider's official prices (verified) ($0.50 per 1M input tokens, $2.50 per 1M output tokens).
Does Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo support prompt caching?: Yes. Cached input costs $0.10 per 1M tokens, compared with $0.50 for regular input.
How long is Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo's context window?: Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo accepts up to 256,000 tokens (256K) of context and returns up to 256,000 tokens per response.
Does Dola Seed 2.1 Turbo have a batch price?: Yes. Asynchronous batch requests cost $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $1.25 per 1M output tokens.