ByteDance · Released Mar 10, 2026
Seed-2.0-Lite
Seed-2.0-Lite is a versatile, cost‑efficient enterprise workhorse that delivers strong multimodal and agent capabilities while offering noticeably lower latency, making it a practical default choice for most production workloads across...
- Released
- Mar 10 2026
- Context window
- 262K 131K out
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.25 from $0.087
- Output / 1M tokens
- $2.00 from $0.51
Where to run it
12 providers compared
Included in Volcengine Ark Coding Plan. Cheapest: ZenMux at $0.09 / $0.51 per 1M input / output tokens — 79% less than the priciest option.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Context | Max output | Uptime | vs. best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volcengine Ark Coding Plansubscription plan | Plan | Plan | Plan | 256K | 32K | — | Plan |
| ZenMux | $0.09 | $0.51 | $0.02 | 256K | 32K | — | Cheapest |
| Qiniu | $0.087 | $0.52 | $0.017 | 256K | 32K | — | +0% |
| Volcengine Ark | $0.089 | $0.53 | $0.018 | 256K | 131K | — | +3% |
| AIHubMix | $0.09 | $0.54 | $0.018 | 256K | 128K | — | +4% |
| Ofox | $0.13 | $0.76 | $0.03 | 256K | 32K | — | +47% |
| NanoGPTno tool calling | $0.15 | $0.87 | $0.073 | 256K | 32K | — | +68% |
| SeedFP8 | $0.25 | $2.00 | — | 262K | 131K | 100%24h | +253% |
| Kilo Gateway | $0.25 | $2.00 | — | 262K | 131K | — | +253% |
| Merge Gatewayno tool calling | $0.25 | $2.00 | — | 131K | 33K | — | +253% |
| EmpirioLabs AI | $0.31 | $2.50 | $0.31 | 256K | 128K | — | +340% |
| AI/ML API | $0.34 | $2.75 | — | 262K | 131K | — | +385% |
Benchmarks
Benchmark scores
No benchmark scores yet — Epoch AI hasn't evaluated Seed-2.0-Lite. Scores appear here automatically once it does.
Specs
Details
- Model ID
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite- Developer
- ByteDance
- Release date
- Mar 10, 2026 ·
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- API price
- $0.25 / $2.00 per 1M input / output tokens
- Providers
- 12
- Input types
- text, image, video
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Free tier
- No
Release date and prices from OpenRouter's catalog; providers from OpenRouter and models.dev. Buying directly from a provider can cost a little differently. Speed, latency and uptime are measured on OpenRouter only; uptime is the share of OpenRouter requests each provider served over the last day. Benchmark scores are the best result per benchmark from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Rank counts every model tracked here with a score.