ByteDance, the TikTok parent, publishes the Doubao and Seedream model families spanning text, image, and video. Some Seedream and ASR models are open weight.
Visit ByteDanceModels tracked
6
Open weight
1
API only
5
Avg score
50.9
Top benchmark
93.8
Image-to-Video Arena
Total HF downloads
8.5K
First release
May 2025
Latest release
Oct 2026
Ranked by composite score across benchmarks, popularity, efficiency, and versatility.
| # | Model | Modality | Score | Params | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seedance 2.0API | video | AA74.7 | — | Feb 2026 |
| 2 | Seed Audio 1.0API | audio | BB58.8 | — | — |
| 3 | Seedance 3.0API | video | CC46.5 | — | Oct 2026 |
| 4 | Seedance 2.5API | video | CC46.5 | — | Jul 2026 |
| 5 | image | CC42.9 | 14B | May 2025 | |
| 6 | Dola Seed 2.0 ProAPI | text | DD36.1 | — | Jan 2026 |
The strongest model from this provider in each modality. Click a card to open the model page.
How this provider’s catalog splits across text, image, video, audio, embedding, and decision models.
When each model shipped, newest first.
Oct 14
Jul 31
Feb 1
Jan 31
May 20
Composite grades across this provider’s catalog. Higher is better, blending benchmarks, popularity, and efficiency.
Models with downloadable weights, ranked by composite score.
| # | Model | Modality | Score | Params | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | image | CC42.9 | 14B | May 2025 |
Closed-source models accessed through ByteDance’s API.
API pricing is per million tokens unless noted otherwise.
| # | Model | Modality | Score | Params | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seedance 2.0API | video | AA74.7 | — | Feb 2026 |
| 2 | Seed Audio 1.0API | audio | BB58.8 | — | — |
| 3 | Seedance 3.0API | video | CC46.5 | — | Oct 2026 |
| 4 | Seedance 2.5API | video | CC46.5 | — | Jul 2026 |
| 5 | Dola Seed 2.0 ProAPI | text | DD36.1 | — | Jan 2026 |
Each family is a model series. Browse all releases in a family with their own leaderboard.
ByteDance ships 6 models that we track. Of those, 1 are open weight and 5 are accessed through their API.
It depends on the model. See the open-weight section above for models you can run locally, and the API-only section for closed models priced per token.
By composite score, BAGEL-7B-MoT is currently the top ByteDance model in our directory. Composite score blends benchmarks, popularity, efficiency, and versatility.

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Benchmark data sourced from: Hugging Face, Arena.ai, Artificial Analysis.