ByteDance

Beijing, CN· founded 2012· private-late· website ↗

Ships Doubao (consumer chat) and Seedream (image gen) built on the same foundation-model stack that powers TikTok/Douyin AI features. Dominant in mainland Chinese consumer AI.

7 tools in the directory

Doubao

Agents · Doubao Seed 2.1 Pro (in-house ByteDance), with Seed 2.0 / 1.5 on free tier

8.5

ByteDance's flagship AI assistant with a real agent mode and one of the largest user bases outside ChatGPT

Freemium· Free tier (chat, search, writing, image gen, voice/video chats) / Doubao Pro RMB 68/mo (~$9.40) / RMB 200/mo (~$27.80) / RMB 500/mo (~$69.40). API: 6 yuan per 1M input tokens, 30 yuan per 1M output tokens for Doubao 2.1 Pro (cache-hit as low as 1.2 yuan).Long-document PDF and Office file summarizationAutonomous browser and local-computer agent tasks

Seedream

Image Generation · ByteDance Seedream (4.0 / 4.5 / 5.0 Lite family, in-house)

8.5

ByteDance's unified text-to-image and image-editing model, served via Volcengine.

Paid· Usage-based via Volcengine / third-party gateways. Approx: Seedream 4.0 ~$0.025-$0.069 per image; Seedream 4.5 ~$0.035-$0.045 per image (fal, OpenRouter list ~$0.04 flat); Seedream 5.0 Lite ~$0.035 per image. Cheaper CN gateway rates (¥0.12-0.20/image) available. Enterprise SLA pricing on request.High-volume ad creative generationE-commerce product photography and variants

Trae

Coding · Multi-model

8.2

ByteDance's AI-native IDE built as a Cursor-style VS Code fork with agent and cloud-task workflows.

Freemium· Lite: $3 · Pro: $10 · Pro+: $30 · Ultra: $100ai-idecode-completion

Coze Studio

Agents · Multi-model

7.2

Self-hostable visual AI agent development platform from ByteDance with workflows, RAG, and plugin tooling.

Free· Free, Apache 2.0; self-hostedai-agentsworkflow-automation

DeerFlow

Agents · Multi-model (Doubao, DeepSeek, OpenAI, Gemini)

7.2

Open-source multi-agent framework from ByteDance for long-running research, coding, and content tasks.

Free· Free, MIT-licensed (self-hosted; you pay only for LLM tokens)deep-researchautonomous-coding

MineContext

Agents · Doubao-Seed-1.6-flash (default); OpenAI-compatible

6.9

Open-source desktop agent that watches your screen and proactively surfaces summaries, todos, and notes.

Free· Free and open-source (Apache 2.0); bring your own model API keysscreen-context-capturedaily-summaries

Seedance 2.0

Video · Seedance 2.0

6.8

ByteDance's multimodal video model with joint audio-video generation and director-level camera control.

Paid· Not disclosed on the page; API metered via ByteDance's platformtext-to-videoimage-to-video