Doubao 1.5 Vision Pro vs Seed 1.5-VL

ByteDance

Doubao 1.5 Vision Pro, released by ByteDance via Volcano Engine on January 22, 2025, is a multimodal large language model from the Doubao 1.5 family with comprehensive upgrades to visual reasoning, OCR, and fine-grained image understanding. Built on a large-scale sparse MoE architecture, it targets vision-intensive workflows including document analysis, chart interpretation, and visual question answering.

ByteDance

Seed1.5-VL, released by ByteDance Seed on May 15, 2025, is a vision-language foundation model composed of a 532M-parameter vision encoder and a Mixture-of-Experts language model with 20 billion active parameters. It was pretrained on over 3 trillion multimodal tokens and achieved state-of-the-art performance on 38 out of 60 public VLM benchmarks at release. Seed1.5-VL targets complex visual reasoning, OCR, video comprehension, 3D spatial understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks.