This update of Doubao Work has done something that many AI office products are unwilling to do: bring in models from other companies and put the price on the table.
In the past, I could only use my own bean bags 2.1 Lite and Pro for bean bag work. Starting from November 12, users can also choose third-party models such as Kimi K3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.
More critical is the billing method. The model selection page will indicate the credit consumption multiplier of each model. The lower the coefficient, the more savings. Users can choose according to task complexity, speed and cost-effectiveness: use a cheap one to organize meeting minutes, use a more expensive one to write plans and do analysis.
Discounts are also available: simple small-amount tasks will continue to be free; during designated periods on weekdays and holidays, consumption of participating model credits will be discounted; the magnification rate of Doubao 2.1 Lite and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has been directly reduced. New users can get a free 30-day subscription by logging into the computer version.
Doubao Work is Doubao’s office-oriented Agent product. You give it a goal, and it performs tasks and delivers results. In the past, this type of product was almost always a self-developed model. Users did not know what was used behind it, nor how much a task cost.
Disclosing the magnification ratio is equivalent to leaving it to users to judge "which model is worth how much". For Byte, this somewhat illustrates one point: when it comes to office agents, it wants to win in terms of scheduling and price, rather than insisting on using only its own model.