TTPI$0.326−4.72%TPPI$2.23+18.13%TCPI$2.94+5.96%Nemotron 3.5 Lightningcached$0.025$0.023−4.30%Qwen3.5 397B A17Bcached$0.220$0.225+2.30%Nemotron 3 Superout$0.400$0.450+12.50%Z.ai: GLM 4.6Vcached$0.050$0.055+10.00%Thinking Machines: Inklingcached$0.160$0.170+6.30%Muse Glimmer 30Bout$1.50$1.20−20.00%MoonshotAI: Kimi K3cached$0.300$0.270−10.00%MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6cached$0.094$0.073−22.50%MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Codeout$3.30$3.35+1.50%DeepSeek V3.1 Terminusin$0.270$0.300+11.10%SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7cached$0.400$0.500+25.00%Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507in$0.090$0.100+11.10%

TTPI$0.326−4.72%TPPI$2.23+18.13%TCPI$2.94+5.96%Nemotron 3.5 Lightningcached$0.025$0.023−4.30%Qwen3.5 397B A17Bcached$0.220$0.225+2.30%Nemotron 3 Superout$0.400$0.450+12.50%Z.ai: GLM 4.6Vcached$0.050$0.055+10.00%Thinking Machines: Inklingcached$0.160$0.170+6.30%Muse Glimmer 30Bout$1.50$1.20−20.00%MoonshotAI: Kimi K3cached$0.300$0.270−10.00%MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6cached$0.094$0.073−22.50%MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Codeout$3.30$3.35+1.50%DeepSeek V3.1 Terminusin$0.270$0.300+11.10%SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7cached$0.400$0.500+25.00%Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507in$0.090$0.100+11.10%

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Seed-2.0-Lite

text+image+video->text

Seed-2.0-Lite is a compact variant, chosen for high throughput and low cost rather than absolute capability. Available via bytedance-seed. 262,144-token context. Efficient pricing.

Seed-2.0-Lite is a multimodal AI model from bytedance-seed. It costs $0.250 per million input tokens and $2.000 per million output tokens (blended $0.775/M), with a 262,144-token context window.

Modalities text, vision, videoPricing source ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →

INPUT

$0.250/M

per million input tokens

OUTPUT

$2.000/M

per million output tokens

BLENDED 70/30

$0.775/M

unchanged since 3 May

default reference rate · how it is calculated →

CONTEXT

262,144

tokens

What it is good at

Sub-second latency
Affordable at scale
Good for routing & classification
Multimodal: handles images alongside text

Typical use cases

Routing & classification
Bulk summarisation
Realtime chat UX

Benchmarks

No published benchmark scores tracked for this model yet. Frontier and reasoning models from major providers have scores; smaller models and inference-host variants typically inherit the underlying open-weights score.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Seed-2.0-Lite cost?

Seed-2.0-Lite costs $0.250 per million input tokens and $2.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.775 per million tokens.

What is Seed-2.0-Lite's context window?

Seed-2.0-Lite supports up to 262,144 tokens of context in a single request.

What is Seed-2.0-Lite best for?

Seed-2.0-Lite is well suited to Sub-second latency, Affordable at scale and Good for routing & classification.

Who makes Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Lite is developed and served by bytedance-seed.

Terms used on this page

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Token Input tokens Output tokens Price per million tokens Context window Prompt caching Batch API Blended cost