Seed-2.0-Lite
Provider：ByteDance Seed
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...
Key specs
- Context：262.1K
- Max output：131.1K
- Tokenizer：Other
- Released：2026-03-10
Token pricing
- Input price：$0.250 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$2.00 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$0.688 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image, Video
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.016/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.012/call）
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Low input price: cost-effective for tasks that consume large context (RAG, long-doc analysis).
- Long max output (>=30K tokens): strong fit for deep report / essay / document-drafting workflows.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
- Video input support: fit for video understanding, frame QA, content moderation.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Seed-2.0-Lite? Input price $0.250 / 1M tokens, output price $2.00 / 1M tokens, blended about $0.688 / 1M tokens. Refer to ByteDance Seed’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Seed-2.0-Lite support? Context window is 262.1K, max output about 131.1K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Seed-2.0-Lite best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Seed-2.0-Lite fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Seed-2.0-Lite support? Supports Text, Image, Video modality.
- Is Seed-2.0-Lite a free model? Seed-2.0-Lite is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Seed-2.0-Lite? Seed-2.0-Lite is offered by ByteDance Seed.
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