ByteDance Seed coding model for multimodal software engineering and long-running agents
Seed 2.0 Code by bytedance-seed is offered by 10 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.67 per 1M input tokens and $3.36 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is EmpirioLabs AI at $0.40 / $2.40 per 1M, about 1.7× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
The context window is 256,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 256,000 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and Video. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EmpirioLabs AI seed-2-0-code | Gateway | $0.40 tiered >128K: $0.80 | $2.40 | $0.40 | — | 256,000 | 128,000 | |
| Merge Gateway bytedance/dola-seed-2.0-code | Gateway | $0.40 | $2.40 | — | — | 256,000 | 128,000 | |
| Volcengine Ark doubao-seed-2-0-code-preview-260215 | Cloud | $0.47 tiered >32K: $0.71 · >128K: $1.42 | $2.37 | $0.095 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Deep Infra ByteDance/Seed-2.0-code | Cloud | $0.50 tiered >128K: $1.00 | $3.00 | $0.10 | — | 256,000 | 131,072 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.50 | $3.00 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.50 tiered >128K: $1.00 | $3.00 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Requesty | Gateway | $0.50 | $3.00 | $0.10 | — | 256,000 | 256,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.50 | $3.00 | $0.25 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Eden AI deepinfra/ByteDance/Seed-2.0-code | Gateway | $0.50 | $3.00 | $0.10 | — | 256,000 | 131,072 | |
| Ofox volcengine/doubao-seed-2.0-code | Gateway | $0.67 | $3.36 | $0.14 | $0.0024 | 256,000 | 128,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 1 of 10 providers.