ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

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ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite est un modèle multimodal conçu pour workflows agentiques et usage d’outils. Il associe la gestion multimodale des entrées et une utilisation fiable des outils et des agents, un contexte de 262K tokens et un profil à faible coût pour un travail fiable sur 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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