# ByteDance Doubao

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/doubao/  
**Website:** https://www.volcengine.com/product/doubao  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 28.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 51.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Doubao Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 6 acting

## Security (3)

- **Doubao Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Doubao Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Doubao Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **Doubao Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, ByteDance, Multi-Modal, Volcano Engine

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/doubao/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.