ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
Review
ByteDance Seed's Seed-2.0-Mini is very affordably priced with multimodal and video support, but the lack of benchmark data means its suitability for professional business tasks cannot be reliably assessed.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
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
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + Video → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
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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 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
