Seed 2.0 Lite
by ByteDance SeedChat
Cost-efficient ByteDance Seed 2.0 model for production chat, analysis, and structured generation
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Released
- 2026-02-14
- Weights
- Closed
bytedance-seed/seed-2-0-lite · also seen as doubao-seed-2.0-lite, volcengine/doubao-seed-2.0-lite, bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite-20260309
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
- 131,072
- Providers
- 4 + 6 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.250–$0.344 in · $2.00–$2.75 out per 1M tokens · 3 of 4 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-02-14
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2026-02-14
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 cachingunknown
- 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 $0.25 in / $2.00 out per 1M tokens at Seed 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
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