Seed-2.0-Lite
ByteDance Seed · released Mar 10, 2026
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we hold no downloadable copy
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026Seed-2.0-Lite is ByteDance Seed's hosted multimodal model that accepts text, images and video across an unusually long request limit. It is available through only two providers at identical rates, with no published quality scores to judge value.
Consider this if you need multimodal input across a very long request — 262,144 tokens — and are already set up on OpenRouter or ByteDance Seed's own platform. Skip it if you want provider choice, measured quality data, or faster output generation.
The case for it
- Among the largest disclosed request limits we track, at 262,144 tokens.
- Multimodal input handling: text, images and video in a single model.
The case against it
- Expensive output rate with no benchmark scores on file to justify the cost.
- Only two tracked offers, both at identical pricing, so there is no price competition.
- Throughput of 36 tokens per second on the only measured host, which is slow for its price tier.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Seed-2.0-Lite — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Cheapest of 2 live listings. Picked at the widest standard context we hold, within one quantisation slice, so the numbers beside it are a price one host actually charges.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.25 in / $2.00 out
- Context served
- 262K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.25 / $2.00 | 262K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Seedfp8 | $0.25 / $2.00 | 262K | 51 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
Across the 2 listings we hold: 1 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 1 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Seedfp8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 2 of 2 listings say yes. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 2 of 2 listings say yes.
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+image+video->text
- Catalogue slug
- bytedance-seed-seed-2-0-lite