火山引擎 API

Volcengine API is ByteDance's enterprise cloud — Doubao LLM, video / livestream / recommendation algorithms, ECS compute, object storage; ByteDance internal tech outputs.

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Use it when

Industry-leading video / livestream / recommendation algorithms (ByteDance internal tech)

Watch for

General cloud services (compute/storage) less mature than Alibaba / Tencent Cloud

First check

Sign up at volcengine.com to create AccessKey. Doubao LLM via OpenAI-compatible endpoint: POST https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3/chat/completions

Auth

api_key

CORS

HTTPS

Yes

Signup

Protocol

REST

Pricing

paid

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About this API

Volcengine is ByteDance's enterprise cloud brand established 2020, commercializing ByteDance internal tech (supporting hundreds-of-millions-DAU products like Douyin / TikTok / Toutiao — video / recommendation / livestream / RTC core technologies). Differentiators: (1) Video and livestream tech — engineering accumulated behind Douyin scale directly available to ToB users; (2) Recommendation algorithms — ByteDance is first-tier in global recommendation algorithms; Volcengine provides recommendation SDKs so other apps achieve Douyin-grade recommendation quality; (3) Doubao LLM — ByteDance's LLM (based on Yunque foundation model), in first half of 2024 ignited China's LLM price war with aggressive "single token ¥0.0008" pricing, forcing Alibaba Cloud / Zhipu to follow with cuts. General cloud services (VMs / storage) still newer than Alibaba Cloud / Tencent Cloud, but unique advantages in Doubao LLM and video/recommendation ByteDance core technologies.

What you can build

1Short video app backends (Douyin / TikTok stack)
2Livestream / RTC apps
3Chinese LLM (Doubao) apps
4Recommendation systems (ByteDance algorithms commercialized)

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

Industry-leading video / livestream / recommendation algorithms (ByteDance internal tech)
Doubao LLM very strong on Chinese benchmarks
Aggressive pricing (Doubao 1024 tokens ¥0.0008, triggered China's 2024 LLM price war)

Limitations

General cloud services (compute/storage) less mature than Alibaba / Tencent Cloud
Almost no international regions
New product matrix (only officially launched 2020)

Example request

Generic template — replace <endpoint> with the real path from the docs.

curl https://www.volcengine.com/<endpoint> \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY"
# Some providers use X-Api-Key instead — verify in the docs.

Getting started

Sign up at volcengine.com to create AccessKey. Doubao LLM via OpenAI-compatible endpoint: POST https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3/chat/completions

FAQ

Doubao vs. Qwen vs. DeepSeek?+

Price + Chinese: Doubao. Strongest general: Qwen-Max. Best cost-effectiveness + coding: DeepSeek. Differences narrowing — test for specific use case.

Why did all China LLMs cut prices in 2024?+

May 2024 Doubao's aggressive pricing triggered price war; Alibaba / Tencent / Zhipu followed. End of 2024 DeepSeek-V3 pushed the floor lower.

Technical details

CORS: ?HTTPS: YesSignup: ?Open source: No

Auth type: api_key
Pricing: paid
Rate limit: 按服务 quota
Protocols: REST
SDKs: python, javascript, java, go