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Seed 2.0 Lite
bytedance-seed·bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite-2·GA·Closed·seed series
Cost-efficient ByteDance Seed 2.0 model for production chat, analysis, and structured generation
At a glance
Reference price$0.31 / $2.50 per 1M
Cache read $0.31 · EmpirioLabs AI
Lowest paid$0.13 / $0.76
Ofox Gateway · 2.4× spread
Context256,000
⚠ Providers report 131,072–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit128,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImageVideo
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-02-14 / 2026-02-14
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 5 providers5 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ofox volcengine/doubao-seed-2.0-lite | Gateway | $0.13 | $0.76 | $0.03 | $0.0024 | 256,000 | 32,000 | |
| OpenRouter bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite | Gateway | $0.25 tiered >128K: $0.50 | $2.00 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Merge Gateway bytedance/dola-seed-2.0-lite | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Kilo Gateway bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite | Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| EmpirioLabs AI seed-2-0-lite | Gateway | $0.31 tiered >128K: $0.62 | $2.50 | $0.31 | — | 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.
Your usage cost
1Ofox$52.00
2OpenRouter$150.00
3Merge Gateway$150.00
4Kilo Gateway$150.00
5EmpirioLabs AI$187.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
Toggle (on / off)effort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = none
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended