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Volcengine / Doubao

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ByteDance's Doubao LLM. Free quota available.

LLMest. 2012 · Beijing, China
83
/ 100 APIVault Score

// At a glance

Free Tier
Free quota · phone required · China
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
just now

// Free tier details

Available Models

Doubao-Pro-32kDoubao-LiteDoubao-Vision

Monthly Tokens

Free developer quota

No credit card needed
Phone verification required

// Quick start

300">"text-purple-400">from openai 300">"text-purple-400">import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=300">"YOUR_VOLCENGINE_KEY",
    base_url=300">"https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=300">"ep-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXX",  3 italic"># Your endpoint ID
    messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

// Overview

Volcengine (火山引擎) is ByteDance's cloud platform hosting the Doubao (豆包) LLM family. Doubao-Pro-32k is competitive with top models and free quota is available for developers.

// Pros

  • ByteDance's frontier model
  • OpenAI-compatible
  • Vision support

// Cons

  • Phone required
  • Chinese market focus
  • Endpoint ID setup needed

// Score breakdown

Reliability (35%) (from just now health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)75/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)74/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)74/100

Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology

// Best for

ByteDance ecosystem appsChinese AI applicationsVision tasks