Doubao Seed 1.8
Chatvolcengine/doubao-seed-1-8Doubao Seed 1.8 is ByteDance's next-generation Doubao model, served through Volcengine, with improved reasoning, enhanced capabilities, and better overall performance than the previous Seed generation. It supports reasoning, tool use (function calling), and prompt caching, and it is the newest member of the Doubao Seed line on Ofox: pricing matches Seed 1.6 at $0.12/M input tokens and $0.023/M cache reads, so existing integrations can move over without a cost change. Unlike the 1.6 models it is also reachable over the native Anthropic protocol. Context: 256K tokens, output: 64K. Released 2025-12-28. Available via OpenAI and Anthropic protocols through Ofox.
Context Window
256K
Max Output Tokens
64K
Released
2025-12-28
Capabilities
Function CallingReasoningPrompt Caching
Available Providers
Volcengine
Supported Protocols
openaianthropic
Providers
Volcengine
Input Tokens
$0.12/M
Output Tokens
$0.29/M
Cache Read
$0.023/M
Protocols
openai
/v1/chat/completions/v1/responsesanthropic
Code Examples
from openai import OpenAIclient = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.ofox.ai/v1",api_key="YOUR_OFOX_API_KEY",)response = client.chat.completions.create(model="volcengine/doubao-seed-1-8",messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],)print(response.choices[0].message.content)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Doubao Seed 1.8 on Ofox.ai costs $0.12/M per million input tokens and $0.29/M per million output tokens. Pay-as-you-go, no monthly fees.
Doubao Seed 1.8 supports a context window of 256K tokens with max output of 64K tokens, allowing you to process large documents and maintain long conversations.
Simply set your base URL to https://api.ofox.ai/v1 and use your Ofox API key. The API is OpenAI-compatible โ just change the base URL and API key in your existing code.
Doubao Seed 1.8 supports the following capabilities: Function Calling, Reasoning, Prompt Caching. Access all features through the Ofox.ai unified API.