ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

Text input Video input Image input Text output
Author's Description

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 text, vision, and tools. Engineered for high-frequency visual understanding and agentic workflows, it's an ideal choice for deployment at scale with minimal latency.

Key Specifications
Cost
$$$$$
Context
262K
Released
Mar 10, 2026
Speed
Ability
Reliability
Supported Parameters

This model supports the following parameters:

Tools Temperature Max Tokens Structured Outputs Top P Tool Choice Frequency Penalty Response Format Reasoning Include Reasoning Stop
Features

This model supports the following features:

Tools Structured Outputs Response Format Reasoning
Performance Summary

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite is a balanced model designed for high-frequency enterprise workloads, demonstrating exceptional reliability with a 100% success rate across all benchmarks. While its speed ranking indicates longer response times (19th percentile) and its pricing is moderate (24th percentile), its consistent performance across diverse tasks is a significant asset. The model exhibits strong capabilities in several areas. It achieves perfect accuracy in both General Knowledge and Reasoning, with the latter also being the most accurate model at its price point and speed. Its Mathematics performance is also excellent, ranking in the 97th percentile. Instruction Following and Coding benchmarks show very good accuracy at 79.0% and 94.0% respectively. A notable weakness is its Hallucinations benchmark, where it scored 81.6% accuracy, indicating some tendency to generate information rather than acknowledge uncertainty. Email Classification and Ethics also show solid, though not top-tier, performance. Seed-2.0-Lite's ability to handle long contexts, fuse multi-source information, and execute multi-step instructions, combined with its stable quality and reduced cost, positions it as a robust solution for production tasks despite its slower processing speed.

Model Pricing

Current Pricing

Feature Price (per 1M tokens)
Prompt $0.25
Completion $2

Price History

Available Endpoints
Provider Endpoint Name Context Length Pricing (Input) Pricing (Output)
Seed
Seed | bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite-20260309 262K $0.25 / 1M tokens $2 / 1M tokens
Benchmark Results
Benchmark Category Reasoning Strategy Free Executions Accuracy Cost Duration
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