{"id":10384,"date":"2025-11-12T03:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bytedance-unveils-chinas-most-affordable-ai-coding-agent-at-just-us1-30-a-month\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:15:06","slug":"bytedance-unveils-chinas-most-affordable-ai-coding-agent-at-just-us1-30-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bytedance-unveils-chinas-most-affordable-ai-coding-agent-at-just-us1-30-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance unveils China\u2019s most affordable AI coding agent at just US$1.30 a month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Volcano Engine, the cloud unit of TikTok owner ByteDance, has launched a new coding agent priced at just 9.9 yuan (US$1.30) for the first month of subscription – underscoring the fierce competition<\/span> in China’s booming AI developer tools market.<\/div>\n
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The Doubao-Seed-Code model, released on Tuesday, carries a standard monthly fee of 40 yuan, according to a company statement. The company unveiled its discounted one-month promotion on November 11, China’s annual Singles’ Day shopping festival.<\/p>\n

ByteDance has been accelerating its artificial intelligence push, with usage of its Doubao chatbot doubling in the past six months<\/span>, Volcano Engine president Tan Dai said at a corporate event in October.<\/div>\n

The growth, he added, highlighted the rapid rise in AI adoption among Chinese consumers and reinforced ByteDance’s position among the world’s leading AI players.<\/p>\n

The new model set a state-of-the-art record on the SWE-Bench Verified test, placing it on par with mainstream systems such as Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet.<\/p>\n

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The launch comes after Anthropic, a US AI start-up, updated its service restrictions in September to block access by subsidiaries of Chinese firms – the latest sign of growing polarisation in the global AI landscape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ByteDance unveils China’s most affordable AI coding agent at just US$1.30 a month<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volcano Engine, the cloud unit of TikTok owner ByteDance, has launched a new coding agent priced at just 9.9 yuan (US$1.30) for the first month of subscription – underscoring the fierce competition in China’s booming AI developer tools market. Advertisement The Doubao-Seed-Code model, released on Tuesday, carries a standard monthly fee of 40 yuan, according…<\/p>\n

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