ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
ByteDance Seed's Seed-2.0-Mini is affordably priced with multimodal support, but without benchmark data its capabilities cannot be assessed — suitable only for exploratory or low-stakes use cases.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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Seed-2.0-mini targets latency-sensitive, high-concurrency, and cost-sensitive scenarios, emphasizing fast response and flexible inference deployment. It delivers performance comparable to ByteDance-Seed-1.6, supports 256k context, four reasoning effort modes (minimal/low/medium/high), multimodal understanding, and is optimized for lightweight tasks where cost and speed take priority.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + Video → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.10 | $0.000100 |
| Output | $0.40 | $0.000400 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
