ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
Analysis Summary
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite sits in the Emerging tier on our leaderboard, ranked #323 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.250 input and $2.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.
Editorial notes
ByteDance Seed Seed-2.0-Lite supports vision, video, tool use, and function calling with a 262K context at $0.25 input per million tokens, but has no benchmark data available.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
Seed-2.0-Lite is a versatile, costāefficient enterprise workhorse that delivers strong multimodal and agent capabilities while offering noticeably lower latency, making it a practical default choice for most production workloads across..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
|
| Provider | bytedance-seed |
| Release Date | March 10, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 131,072 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 | $0.000250 |
| Output | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
Live Performance
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