Seed 2.0 Code
by ByteDance SeedChat
ByteDance Seed coding model for multimodal software engineering and long-running agents
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 256,000 tokens
- Released
- 2026-02-14
- Weights
- Closed
bytedance-seed/seed-2-0-code · also seen as doubao-seed-2.0-code, ByteDance/Seed-2.0-code, volcengine/doubao-seed-2.0-code, bytedance/dola-seed-2.0-code, +2 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-02-14
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image, Video
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 262,144 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 256,000
- Providers
- 4 + 9 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.400–$0.688 in · $2.40–$4.13 out per 1M tokens · across all 4 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-03-20
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01-01
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.40 in / $2.40 out per 1M tokens at EmpirioLabs AI on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026, the earliest refresh this model's headline price can be rebuilt from. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
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