Published 2026-05-21 · 林启明

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A developer guide to using Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini through NextModel, including price, best use cases, and quickstart code. This guide is written for Canada-based product and platform teams comparing model quality, spend, routing policy, and production rollout risk.

What is Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini good for?

Doubao Seed 2.0 Mini is a low-cost Chinese model candidate for high-volume product work: support drafts, classification, summarization, Chinese Q&A, and lightweight multimodal understanding. In the NextModel catalog it is marked as a production entry with $0.03 per 1M input tokens and $0.30 per 1M output tokens.

FieldValue
Input price$0.03 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.30 / 1M tokens
Best forChinese Q&A, support, summarization, classification
Sourceplatform_curated

Call Doubao through the OpenAI SDK

The model can be called with the same OpenAI-compatible chat-completions shape used elsewhere in the docs.

curl
curl https://api.nextmodel.app/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NEXTMODEL_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen/qwen3.7-max","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Reply with OK."}]}'

Next steps

Compare Doubao on the model page, estimate monthly cost on pricing, then run your real prompt samples before routing production traffic.

  • View /models/doubao-seed-2-0-mini
  • Estimate cost in /pricing
  • Start with /docs/quickstart