Doubao Seed Evolving

ByteDance’s Doubao-Seed-Evolving model via OpenAI-compatible API. A single, always-latest model ID that updates weekly — currently equivalent to Doubao-Seed-2.1-Pro.

Doubao-Seed-Evolving gives you ByteDance’s strongest available Seed model through a single, stable model ID, available through AnyFast via an OpenAI-compatible interface. It updates on a weekly cadence and continuously evolves — upgrades take effect automatically, so you never need to switch model IDs or rework your integration. It currently maps to Doubao-Seed-2.1-Pro, and targets coding, office, and productivity scenarios.

Doubao-Seed-Evolving does not support batch inference. For batch workloads, use a versioned model such as doubao-seed-2.1-pro or doubao-seed-2.1-turbo.

Key capabilities

• OpenAI-compatible — Works as a drop-in replacement with the OpenAI SDK
• Always latest — One model ID points to the strongest version, updated weekly with no migration
• 256K context window — Handles project-scale context, with up to 256K tokens of output in a single response
• Deep thinking — Chain-of-thought reasoning, on by default, with adjustable reasoning_effort
• Multimodal understanding — Text, image, video, and document understanding (audio not supported)
• Function calling, structured output & context caching — Robust tool use, JSON output (beta), and prompt caching
• Streaming — Real-time token streaming via SSE

Output specifications

Property	Value
Input modality	Text, Image, Video, Document
Output modality	Text
Context window	256K tokens
Max output tokens	256K

Quick example

cURL

curl https://www.anyfast.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "doubao-seed-evolving",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum entanglement in simple terms." }
    ]
  }'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://www.anyfast.ai/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="doubao-seed-evolving",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum entanglement in simple terms."}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://www.anyfast.ai/v1"
)

stream = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="doubao-seed-evolving",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Write a short poem about the sea."}
    ],
    stream=True
)

for chunk in stream:
    print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content or "", end="")

Thinking mode

Doubao-Seed-Evolving reasons before answering by default. thinking.type is enabled unless you set it to disabled to skip reasoning for lightweight tasks. Use reasoning_effort to tune how long the model thinks.

Python

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="doubao-seed-evolving",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Design a REST API for a blogging platform."}
    ],
    extra_body={
        "thinking": {"type": "enabled"},
        "reasoning_effort": "high"
    }
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

reasoning_effort controls reasoning length (effective only when thinking is enabled) and accepts minimal, low, medium, and high. Default: high.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
model	string	Yes	Must be doubao-seed-evolving
messages	array	Yes	List of { role, content } objects
thinking	object	No	{ "type": "enabled" | "disabled" }. Controls deep thinking. Default: enabled
reasoning_effort	string	No	minimal, low, medium, high. Effective when thinking is enabled. Default: high
max_tokens	integer	No	Maximum tokens to generate (up to 262144)
temperature	float	No	0–2. Controls randomness. Default: 1
top_p	float	No	Nucleus sampling threshold. Default: 1
stream	boolean	No	Enable SSE streaming. Default: false
tools	array	No	Function tool definitions for tool use
response_format	object	No	{ "type": "json_object" } for structured JSON output (beta)
stop	string / array	No	Sequences that stop generation

API Reference

View the interactive API playground for Doubao Seed Evolving.