Agent Plan vs Coding Plan: A Complete Token Package for AI Coding and Media

As a heavy token user, the author has subscribed to various token packages from providers such as Zhipu, MiniMax, Xiaomi Mimo, and the early Coding Plan from Volcano Engine. While the original Coding Plan covered daily programming work, it fell short for increasingly multimodal AI scenarios like image and video generation.

Coding Plan vs Agent Plan

The author quickly adopted the newly released Agent Plan, noting that it fully covers the capabilities of the Coding Plan and adds multimodal support and a Harness toolchain. A comparison image (see below) summarizes the main differences.

Agent Plan adds three leading multimodal models from the Doubao‑Seed series:

Doubao‑Seed: general text/code model, same lineage as the main Coding Plan model.

Doubao‑Seedream: image generation, the state‑of‑the‑art in Doubao’s image series.

Doubao‑Seedance 2.0: video generation, globally leading in video synthesis.

To unify billing across text, image, video, and web search, Agent Plan introduces AFP (Agent Fuel Points) as a single consumption unit.

The pricing tiers and corresponding AFP allocations are shown in the following table.

My Application Scenarios

Daily Work: Programming

Using Claude Code with CC Switch, the author replaced the Coding Plan endpoint with the Agent Plan endpoint and generated a new API key on the Agent Plan page.

Request URL: https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/plan Create a new API key on the Agent Plan page (the author notes it was hard to locate).

The model to use is ark-code-latest, a routing model that can switch among all flagship domestic LLMs, fully covering the Coding Plan capabilities.

After configuration, the author verified the active model in Claude Code with the command:

/model

Interest Extension: Media

Inspired by the quote from "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant" about assets that earn while you sleep, the author integrated Agent Plan into SoloEnt, a novel‑focused editor, using OpenAI‑compatible settings.

BaseUrl: https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/plan/v3 Model ID: ark-code-latest With the SoloEnt plugin market, the author installed the "Seedance 2.0" video creation plugin and generated a video from the first chapter of a novel via chat interaction.

After loading the plugin’s skill, SoloEnt produced a scene description, prompted the user for the Agent Plan API key, and submitted the video generation task. The task completed after a few minutes, and the video was downloaded to the desktop.

Building a Unified Resource Pool

Beyond coding and content creation, the author also consumes tokens for various vertical AI tools. To manage all purchased token resources, the author created an open‑source tool called OctaFuse, which aggregates the different plans and exposes a standard OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini interface.

With OctaFuse, only a single BaseUrl and API key are needed to access any of the integrated tools, simplifying development of SaaS products that rely on multiple AI services.

Conclusion

AI has become inseparable from daily work, driving token consumption higher. The previous Coding Plan satisfies only part of the demand, whereas Volcano Engine’s Agent Plan offers a comprehensive coverage of major AI scenarios—including leading LLMs, multimodal generation, web search, and vector memory—while using a clear AFP‑based billing model.

If the Coding Plan no longer meets your needs, the author recommends trying the Agent Plan.