ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
Analysis Summary
ByteDance Seed 2.0-Mini is a compact multimodal model from ByteDance's Seed research team, supporting text, image, and video inputs with tool use and function calling built in. The 262K context window is a practical advantage for document-heavy tasks. However, no benchmark data is available, making it impossible to assess reasoning depth, coding capability, or instruction-following reliability against the broader field.
Without measured performance, it is difficult to recommend for business-critical workflows. The capability flags suggest it could handle structured automation and multimodal tasks, but teams would need to run their own evaluations before committing to production use.
At $0.10/1M input and $0.40/1M output, pricing is competitive. It may be worth piloting for lower-stakes tasks where the cost advantage is attractive, but businesses requiring proven reliability should wait for benchmark validation before broader adoption.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
ByteDance Seed 2.0-Mini supports vision, tool use, and function calling with a 262K context window, but has no benchmark data to validate reasoning or coding capability.
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Performance Profile
How ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini compares
Its 262K-token context window is larger than 81% of the models we list. At $0.10 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 66% of comparable models.
About ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
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,..
Capabilities
How does ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini stack up?
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini
|
| Provider | bytedance-seed |
| Release Date | February 26, 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 | $0.10 | $0.000100 |
| Output | $0.40 | $0.000400 |
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Frequently asked questions about ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
How much does ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini cost?
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini?
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).
What can ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini do?
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini?
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini is developed by ByteDance Seed and was released on February 26, 2026.
