bytedance-seed / text-generation API-only released 2026-03-10

Seed-2.0-Lite

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...

Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$2.00
Context
262.1K
AA Intelligence
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Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + image + video → text View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$0.25
input / 1M
$2.00
output / 1M
—
cached input / 1M
$2.25
1M in + 1M out
Price tiers
  • Above 128K prompt tokens: input $0.50/M, output $4.00/M (2× base)
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Providers
1
Cheapest provider
Seed · $0.25 / $2.00
Best throughput
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AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
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✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✗ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)
Current: $0.25 input · $2.00 output per 1M tokens

Providers

1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics
ProviderQuantContextInputOutputUptimeTok/s
Seed fp8 262.1K $0.25 $2.00 100% —
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation
bytedance-seed
Released on OpenRouter
2026-03-10
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Input
text, image, video
Output
text
Tokenizer
Other
Moderated by provider
No
OpenRouter id
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
Compare with
Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.