Doubao
ByteDance's assistant, bundled across its apps and priced aggressively on Volcano Engine.
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Doubao vs DeepSeek
Doubao (ByteDance) and DeepSeek (DeepSeek) both sit in Writing. DeepSeek shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 8). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Doubao ByteDance | DeepSeek DeepSeek |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Doubao Seedance 2.5 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 |
| Entry cost | Pricing varies by model. Paid API usage billed via Volcengine. | Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified. |
| Pricing tiers | App free · Volcano Engine API free | Pay-as-you-go API free |
| Model stack | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro / flash · Seed-Evolving | deepseek-flash · DeepSeek-R1 · DeepSeek-V3.2 · deepseek-v4-flash · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · DeepSeek-V4-Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 |
| Context window | 256K tokens | 1000000 |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 8 | 11 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Voice mode, Image generation, Real-time camera, Browser extension, Long docs, Text Generation, Video Generation, Image Generation | Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output |
DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.
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