ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Large memoryVisionTiefes DenkenTool-Nutzung

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite ist ein multimodal-Modell für agentische Workflows und Tool-Nutzung. Es verbindet multimodale Eingabeverarbeitung und zuverlässige Tool-Nutzung und agentisches Verhalten, einen Kontext von 262K tokens und ein kostengünstig-Profil für zuverlässige Arbeit über agent workflows, tool use, and orchestration.

Input

$0.25/1M

Output

$2.00/1M

Cached

$0.01/1M

Batch

$0.04/1M

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Technical specifications

Seed-2.0-Lite at a glance.

Memory

262,144

tokens

Max reply

131,072

tokens

Memory tier

Large

an entire book or large codebase

Tokenizer

—

Released

Mar 2026

Training cutoff

Dec 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Seed-2.0-Lite

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Seed-2.0-Lite costs roughly $99 per month. Input is $0.25 /1M tokens and output is $2.00 /1M tokens.
Seed-2.0-Lite has a 262,144-token context window (large memory — an entire book or large codebase). That means you can fit about 49,152 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Seed-2.0-Lite supports understanding images, deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Seed-2.0-Lite was released in March 2026, with training data cut off around December 2025.
Models in a similar class include Seed 1.6, Seed-2.0-Mini, Seed 1.6 Flash. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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