Lightweight ByteDance Seed 2.0 model for low-latency multimodal reasoning and high-volume tasks
Seed 2.0 Mini by bytedance-seed is offered by 9 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.12 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Volcengine Ark at $0.03 / $0.297 per 1M, about 4.0× below the reference price.
The context window is 256,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 131,072 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volcengine Ark doubao-seed-2-0-mini-260428 | Cloud | $0.03 tiered >32K: $0.059 · >128K: $0.12 | $0.30 | $0.0059 | — | 256,000 | 131,072 | |
| Deep Infra ByteDance/Seed-2.0-mini | Cloud | $0.10 tiered >128K: $0.20 | $0.40 | $0.02 | — | 256,000 | 32,000 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.10 tiered >128K: $0.20 | $0.40 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Merge Gateway bytedance/dola-seed-2.0-mini | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Requesty | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.02 | — | 256,000 | 256,000 | |
| Eden AI deepinfra/ByteDance/Seed-2.0-mini | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.02 | — | 256,000 | 32,000 | |
| Ofox volcengine/doubao-seed-2.0-mini | Gateway | $0.06 | $0.56 | $0.02 | $0.0024 | 256,000 | 32,000 | |
| EmpirioLabs AI seed-2-0-mini | Gateway | $0.12 tiered >128K: $0.24 | $0.50 | $0.12 | — | 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 9 providers.
1 / 9 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).