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ByteDance Doubao

Doubao is ByteDance's foundation model family, served via the Volcano Engine Ark platform. Offers chat completions, deep reasoning, multimodal vision, embeddings, image generation (Seedream), video generation (Seedance), 3D generation, and TTS through OpenAI-compatible and native endpoints.

ByteDance Doubao publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Batch API, Chat API, Embeddings API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include AI, LLM, Inference, ByteDance, and Multimodal.

ByteDance Doubao’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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34.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessPaidSelf serve
6 APIs
AILLMInferenceByteDanceMultimodalVolcano Engine

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 34.6/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Volcano Engine Ark API

OpenAI-compatible chat, responses, embedding, batch, image (Seedream), video (Seedance), 3D, and TTS APIs serving the Doubao model family. Base URL https://ark.cn-beijing.volces...

ByteDance Doubao Batch API

The Batch API from ByteDance Doubao — 1 operation(s) for batch.

ByteDance Doubao Chat API

The Chat API from ByteDance Doubao — 1 operation(s) for chat.

ByteDance Doubao Embeddings API

The Embeddings API from ByteDance Doubao — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.

ByteDance Doubao Images API

The Images API from ByteDance Doubao — 1 operation(s) for images.

ByteDance Doubao Videos API

The Videos API from ByteDance Doubao — 2 operation(s) for videos.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Volcano Engine Ark API (Doubao)

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Doubao Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Doubao Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Doubao Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Doubao Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Doubao Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Doubao Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Doubao Agentic Access

7 operations · 6 acting

7 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: doubao
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/doubao/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: ByteDance Doubao
kind: company
description: Doubao is ByteDance's foundation model family, served via the Volcano Engine Ark platform. Offers chat completions,
  deep reasoning, multimodal vision, embeddings, image generation (Seedream), video generation (Seedance), 3D generation,
  and TTS through OpenAI-compatible and native endpoints.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/doubao.png
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- Inference
- ByteDance
- Multimodal
- Volcano Engine
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: doubao:ark
  name: Volcano Engine Ark API
  description: OpenAI-compatible chat, responses, embedding, batch, image (Seedream), video (Seedance), 3D, and TTS APIs serving
    the Doubao model family. Base URL https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3. Includes the Doubao-Seed-Code coding model.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379
  baseURL: https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - AI
  - LLM
  - Chat Completions
  - Vision
  - Embeddings
  - Image Generation
  - Video Generation
  - Audio
  - OpenAI Compatible
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379
  - type: Console
    url: https://console.volcengine.com/ark/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379
  - type: ProductPage
    url: https://www.volcengine.com/product/doubao
- aid: doubao:doubao-batch-api
  name: ByteDance Doubao Batch API
  description: The Batch API from ByteDance Doubao — 1 operation(s) for batch.
  humanURL: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379
  baseURL: https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Batch
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/doubao-batch-api-openapi.yml
- aid: doubao:doubao-chat-api
  name: ByteDance Doubao Chat API
  description: The Chat API from ByteDance Doubao — 1 operation(s) for chat.
  humanURL: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379
  baseURL: https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/doubao-chat-api-openapi.yml
- aid: doubao:doubao-embeddings-api
  name: ByteDance Doubao Embeddings API
  description: The Embeddings API from ByteDance Doubao — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.
  humanURL: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379
  baseURL: https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/doubao-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: doubao:doubao-images-api
  name: ByteDance Doubao Images API
  description: The Images API from ByteDance Doubao — 1 operation(s) for images.
  humanURL: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379
  baseURL: https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/doubao-images-api-openapi.yml
- aid: doubao:doubao-videos-api
  name: ByteDance Doubao Videos API
  description: The Videos API from ByteDance Doubao — 2 operation(s) for videos.
  humanURL: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379
  baseURL: https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Videos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/doubao-videos-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/doubao-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/doubao-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/doubao-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/doubao-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bytedance
- type: Website
  url: https://www.volcengine.com/product/doubao
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/82379
- type: Plans
  url: plans/doubao-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/doubao-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/doubao-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com