Seed 2.0 Mini
by ByteDance SeedChat
Lightweight ByteDance Seed 2.0 model for low-latency multimodal reasoning and high-volume tasks
- Context
- 256K tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Released
- 2026-04-28
- Weights
- Closed
bytedance-seed/seed-2-0-mini-260428 · also seen as doubao-seed-2-0-mini-260428, bytedance/seed-2-0-mini-260428
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-04-28
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image, Video
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 256,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 131,072
- Providers
- 1 + 3 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.0297 in · $0.297 out per 1M tokens · from its one provider
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-04-28
- Knowledge cutoff
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 feedCheapest direct price, USD per 1M tokens, 19 Oct 2026 to 20 Oct 2026. Steps mark the pipeline run that saw the change.
Input price history: no headline price from 19 Oct 2026, $0.0297 from 19 Oct 2026.
Output price history: no headline price from 19 Oct 2026, $0.297 from 19 Oct 2026.
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| From (UTC) | Input | Output | Cheapest at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026, 16:56 | $0.0297 | $0.297 | Volcengine Ark |
| 19 Oct 2026, 14:54 | — | — | none |
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
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