ByteDance unit launches Doubao-Seed-Code

ByteDance’s Volcano Engine has launched Doubao-Seed-Code, an AI coding agent priced at RMB 9.9 for the first month, about 63% below the market average. Integrated with the Trae app, the model can process up to 256,000 words per query and achieved a 78.8% score on the SWE-Bench Verified test, rivaling Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet.