Doubao 1.5 Pro: API Pricing & How to Use Doubao-1.5-Pro API

Recently, many new models have entered the market, with Doubao-1.5-Pro standing out and gaining widespread attention. Built on a Sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, it strikes an optimal balance between model performance and inference efficiency through an integrated training-inference design. Despite utilizing fewer activation parameters, it surpasses the performance of leading ultra-large dense pre-trained models and achieves outstanding results across multiple evaluation benchmarks.

In this article, we will delve into its distinctive features, advantages over competitors, and best practices for implementation.

What is Doubao 1.5 Pro?

Doubao 1.5 Pro is a data integration and automation tool designed to simplify workflows, connect software systems, and manage data seamlessly. It provides businesses with a powerful platform for automating processes, reducing manual data entry, and ensuring data consistency across various platforms. The tool is especially useful for enterprises that rely on multiple systems and need to synchronize data efficiently.

Key Features:

• Real-time Data Sync: Ensure your data is always up-to-date across all connected platforms.
• Customizable Data Transformation: Tailor your data workflows to fit your business needs with easy-to-use transformation rules.
• API Integration: Integrate Doubao 1.5 Pro into your existing applications and workflows using a powerful REST API.
• Expanded Connectors: A wide variety of pre-built connectors to popular software tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Sheets, and more.
• Security: End-to-end encryption to ensure data privacy and integrity.
• User-friendly Interface: Simplified UI for easy management and monitoring of integrations.

Benchmark Performance of Doubao 1.5 Pro

Doubao 1.5 Pro basic model offers enhanced capabilities and advanced features for business automation and data management, particularly in real-time synchronization and customizable workflows, which are not typically found in alternatives like Claude or GPT.

More importantly, the improvements in Doubao 1.5 Pro are built on a solid foundation — the model was trained without relying on data generated by other models. In other words, Doubao 1.5 Pro is entirely trained on its own data production system and did not take shortcuts through model distillation.

Highlights

Doubao 1.5 Pro has been optimized for high-performance use cases, providing fast data synchronization and minimal latency. With an improved engine over previous versions, it can handle complex data transformations and large-scale integrations with ease.

• Leveraging a MoE architecture, the model achieves world-class performance with minimal activated parameters, delivering a 7x performance boost.
• The data production system operates with complete autonomy, entirely free from other model datasets.
• Multimodal capabilities have been dramatically expanded.

Pricing Structure of Doubao 1.5 Pro

Standard Pricing

Doubao 1.5 Pro offers an incredibly cost-effective pricing model. Here’s a breakdown of the pricing:

Doubao-1.5 Pro-32k Model:

• Input Tokens: ¥0.8 (USD 0.11) per million tokens
• Output Tokens: ¥2 (USD 0.28)  per million tokens

Doubao-1.5 Pro-256k Model:

• Input Tokens: ¥5 (USD 0.69) per million tokens
• Output Tokens: ¥9 (USD 1.24) per million tokens

Pricing Comparison

• Doubao-1.5 Pro is 50x cheaper than GPT-4 while offering comparable performance.
• DeepSeek pricing is 5x more expensive than Doubao 1.5 Pro.
• o1 pricing is more than 200x higher than Doubao 1.5 Pro.

This makes Doubao 1.5 Pro one of the most affordable solutions in the industry, with prices significantly lower than the competition — up to 70% cheaper than industry averages.

How to Use Doubao 1.5 Pro API

The Doubao 1.5 Pro API supports communication requests via both HTTP and HTTPS protocols, with HTTPS recommended for enhanced security.

Getting Started

To begin using Doubao 1.5 Pro API:

1. Create a new API key from Volcengine
2. Set <YOUR_API_KEY> as an environment variable
3. Configure Your Desired Model
4. Set Up Environment and Make the Call

Example Implementation in Python

import os
from volcenginesdkarkruntime import Ark
# Read Your Volcengine API Key from the Environment Variable
client = Ark(api_key=os.environ.get("ARK_API_KEY"))
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    # Replace <YOUR_ENDPOINT_ID> with Your Volcengine Endpoints ID
    model="<YOUR_ENDPOINT_ID>",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}
    ]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message)

Using cURL

curl https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ARK_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "<YOUR_ENDPOINT_ID>",
    "messages": [
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Gello"
        }
    ]
  }'

Advanced Features

Visual Multimodal Capabilities

In terms of vision, Doubao-1.5 Pro has made comprehensive technical advancements compared to its previous version.

• Improvements span multimodal data synthesis, dynamic resolution, multimodal alignment, and hybrid training.
• The model’s ability in areas such as visual reasoning, document recognition, fine-grained information understanding, and instruction following has been significantly enhanced.
• The response patterns of the model have become more concise and user-friendly.
  

Speech Multimodal Capabilities

Unlike traditional ASR + LLM + TTS cascaded approaches, Doubao-1.5 Pro not only boasts high comprehension (high IQ) but also excels in speech expressiveness and control. The model demonstrates exceptional emotional continuity both in its responses and speech output. By integrating speech and text tokens, Doubao-1.5 Pro provides the necessary foundation for scaling speech multimodal data effectively.

Why Choose Doubao 1.5 Pro?  

The Doubao-1.5 Pro-AS1 Preview has already surpassed O1-preview and other inference models like O1 on AIME. As reinforcement learning (RL) continues, the model’s capabilities are expected to keep improving, leading to even better performance over time.

And Doubao-1.5-pro offers a more competitive pricing, making it an attractive option for developers seeking high-performance models with cost-effectiveness.

Conclusion

With Doubao 1.5 pro, developers gain access to a high-performance model that achieves breakthrough results using minimal activated parameters, outperforming leading large dense pre-trained models across multiple benchmarks. As the Doubao team continues to invest deeply in foundational AI research and pursue transformative general intelligence challenges, it offers an ideal solution for modern enterprises seeking to maintain a competitive edge in a data-driven world.

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