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Volcano Engine Launches Doubao-Seed-Code, an Agentic Coding Model With 256K Context and Vision-to-Code

The release emphasizes lower-cost access for developers.

Overview

  • Volcano Engine opened full API access to Doubao-Seed-Code on the Volcano Ark platform on November 11.
  • The company reports a 78.80% result on the SWE‑Bench‑Verified leaderboard when paired with the TRAE environment, and TRAE (CN) Enterprise entered public beta with large‑repo support, encryption, and admin controls.
  • The model supports 256K context windows and visual understanding to generate code from UI designs or screenshots and perform visual comparison for style and bug fixes.
  • Doubao-Seed-Code is natively compatible with the Anthropic/Claude API and works in tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Codex CLI, and veCLI to ease migration.
  • Volcano Engine cites tiered token pricing with an estimated 62.7% lower average usage cost and a Coding Plan starting at 9.9 yuan for the first month, while early media tests highlight solid performance across front-end, refactoring, and full-site builds.