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
Supported Parameters
This model supports the following parameters:
Features
This model supports the following features:
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Seed
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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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