Seed 2.1 Turbo API
Other·Vision
Seed 2.1 Turbo is ByteDance Seed’s multimodal model for coding, long-horizon agents, multi-step task execution, tools, reasoning, and visual and video understanding.
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.500 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 8
Specifications
- Context window
- 256K
- Max output
- 66K
- Type
- Vision
- Creator
- Other
- Live sellers
- 21
- Requests / 24h
- 258
Price history · 60 days
Estimated monthly cost
30 days at the cheapest live price.
Quick start
OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL and key. Get a key from the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.qubax.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_QUBAX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="seed-2-1-turbo",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Seed 2.1 Turbo
Seed 2.1 Turbo is a multimodal language model developed by Other. It's particularly well-suited for analyzing images, screenshots, and visual content, tackling complex, multi-step reasoning problems, orchestrating tool-using agents that call APIs and external services, grounding responses in real-time web search results, producing structured outputs for reliable data extraction and handling large contexts of up to 256K tokens. Its 256K-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 66K tokens in a single response.
As of Oct 28, 2026, Seed 2.1 Turbo costs $0.225 per 1M input tokens and $1.13 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $0.500 / $2.50 on OpenRouter (55% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $1.01. 21 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. It handled 258 requests on Qubax in the last 24 hours. Pay with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH or 350+ other coins — no credit card required.
Similar-priced alternatives
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Seed 2.1 Turbo API cost?
On Qubax, Seed 2.1 Turbo costs $0.225 per 1M input tokens and $1.13 per 1M output tokens. This is 55% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $0.500 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Seed 2.1 Turbo API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Seed 2.1 Turbo as a drop-in replacement by changing your base URL to https://api.qubax.ai/v1 and using your Qubax API key. It works with Cline, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports OpenAI APIs.
Why is Seed 2.1 Turbo cheaper on Qubax than OpenRouter?
Qubax sources AI inference from an open compute marketplace on the Base blockchain where GPU providers compete on price. We pass the savings to you — 55% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Seed 2.1 Turbo.
How do I pay for Seed 2.1 Turbo API usage?
Qubax uses prepaid crypto credits. Top up with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or 350+ other coins and your balance is deducted as you use the API. No credit card or KYC required.
What is the context window of Seed 2.1 Turbo?
Seed 2.1 Turbo supports a context window of 256K tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with Seed 2.1 Turbo?
You can use Seed 2.1 Turbo to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, answer questions with real-time web search, generate structured JSON output for data pipelines and process long documents and entire codebases. Because it's served through Qubax's OpenAI-compatible API, integration into existing apps, agents, or workflows takes just a few lines of code.
How fast and reliable is Seed 2.1 Turbo on Qubax?
Responses stream token by token. 21 sellers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
Seed 2.1 Turbo vs DeepSeek V4 Flash (Web): which should I choose?
Seed 2.1 Turbo by Other and DeepSeek V4 Flash (Web) by DeepSeek are both strong models in a similar price tier. Seed 2.1 Turbo excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. DeepSeek V4 Flash (Web) comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, Seed 2.1 Turbo starts at $0.225/1M input tokens while DeepSeek V4 Flash (Web) comes in at $0.171/1M, so DeepSeek V4 Flash (Web) may be worth considering if you need to minimize per-token cost. Both are available on Qubax with crypto payments and OpenAI-compatible APIs, so you can try each and switch freely.
Can I use Seed 2.1 Turbo for commercial projects?
Yes. Seed 2.1 Turbo on Qubax can be used for commercial purposes. You own the outputs you generate. Qubax provides the API infrastructure — you bring your use case.
Why use Seed 2.1 Turbo on Qubax?
55% cheaper
Providers compete on price — you get the cheapest healthy seller.
Pay with crypto
350+ coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC). No card, no KYC.
OpenAI & Anthropic compatible
Drop-in base URL. Works with Cline, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.
