{"id":176100,"date":"2025-11-12T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/176100\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:07:09","slug":"bytedance-unveils-chinas-most-affordable-ai-coding-agent-at-just-us1-30-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/176100\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance unveils China\u2019s most affordable AI coding agent at just US$1.30 a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 underscoring the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3331803\/bytedance-deepens-robotics-push-china-talent-drive-focused-embodied-ai?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fierce competition<\/a> in China\u2019s booming AI developer tools market.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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\u2019s annual Singles\u2019 Day shopping festival.<\/p>\n<p>ByteDance has been accelerating its artificial intelligence push, with usage of its Doubao chatbot <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/3329430\/bytedances-doubao-doubles-token-use-six-months-chinas-ai-boom-gathers-pace?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">doubling in the past six months<\/a>, Volcano Engine president Tan Dai said at a corporate event in October.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The growth, he added, highlighted the rapid rise in AI adoption among Chinese consumers and reinforced ByteDance\u2019s position among the world\u2019s leading AI players.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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\u2019s Claude Sonnet.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The launch comes after Anthropic, a US AI start-up, updated its service restrictions in September to block access by subsidiaries of Chinese firms \u2013 the latest sign of growing polarisation in the global AI landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volcano Engine, the cloud unit of TikTok owner ByteDance, has launched a new coding agent priced at just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,21307,6006,289,290,8473,381,100093,8479,93662,100092,100094,18,19,17,24535,1999,82,1150,8477,100091],"class_list":{"0":"post-176100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-adoption","10":"tag-anthropic","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-bytedance","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-chinese-ai-developers","16":"tag-claude-sonnet","17":"tag-cursor","18":"tag-doubao-chatbot","19":"tag-doubao-seed-code","20":"tag-eire","21":"tag-ie","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-moonshot-ai","24":"tag-singapore","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-tiktok","27":"tag-trae","28":"tag-volcano-engine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115534760668062916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}