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Volcengine

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ByteDance Volcano Engine (Doubao) MCP server

Freeno charge per call

Runs on your machine from its package; the steps are below.

What it does

  1. Reads
  2. Writes
  3. High impact

At most: only reads or looks up information.

What it costs

Free

Odel charges nothing per call. The publisher may charge for its own service.

Runs locally over stdio

This server isn't hosted — your MCP client launches it from a package registry. Use one of the commands below, or drop the config into your client (e.g. Claude Desktop).

npmvolcengine-mcpv1.0.1

Run

npx -y volcengine-mcp

MCP client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "volcengine": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "volcengine-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
README2 min read

volcengine-mcp

[!License: MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [!MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) [!Node.js](https://nodejs.org)

MCP server for ByteDance Volcano Engine. Enables text generation, multi-turn chat, and embeddings via Doubao LLM models through the Volcano Ark API.

Tools (4 total)

ToolDescription
doubao_generateGenerate text using Doubao models (single-turn completion)
doubao_chatMulti-turn conversation with message history
doubao_embeddingsGenerate text embeddings for semantic search and RAG
doubao_list_modelsList available Doubao chat and embedding models

Available Models

Chat Models

Model IDContextDescription
doubao-pro-32k32KGeneral purpose, large context
doubao-pro-4k4KGeneral purpose, fast
doubao-lite-32k32KLightweight, large context
doubao-lite-4k4KLightweight, fast
doubao-seed-1-6-25061532KLatest with vision support
doubao-seed-1-6-flash-25061532KFast thinking, low latency
doubao-seed-1-6-thinking-25061532KDeep reasoning for complex tasks

Embedding Models

Model IDDimensionsDescription
doubao-embedding2560Text embeddings
doubao-embedding-text-2407152560Latest text embeddings

Install

bash
npm install

Configuration

json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "volcengine": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/volcengine-mcp/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "ARK_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment Variables

VariableDescriptionRequired
ARK_API_KEYVolcano Ark API keyYes
VOLCENGINE_API_KEYAlternative API key variableYes (if ARK_API_KEY not set)
ARK_BASE_URLAPI base URLNo (defaults to Beijing endpoint)
ARK_CHAT_MODELDefault chat modelNo (defaults to doubao-pro-32k)
ARK_EMBEDDING_MODELDefault embedding modelNo (defaults to doubao-embedding)

Getting an API Key

  1. Sign up at console.volcengine.com
  2. Complete real-name authentication (required for Chinese cloud services)
  3. Navigate to Large Models > Volcano Ark > API Key Management
  4. Create and copy your API key

Use Cases

  • Chinese language tasks -- Doubao excels at Chinese NLP
  • Low-latency inference -- Doubao Flash for real-time applications
  • Deep reasoning -- Doubao Thinking for complex analysis
  • Cost-effective bulk processing -- Doubao Lite for high-volume tasks
  • Semantic search and RAG -- Doubao embeddings (2560 dimensions)

Dependencies

  • @modelcontextprotocol/sdk -- MCP protocol SDK

License

MIT

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