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ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

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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.

Modalities

In / Out Price

$0.25 / $2per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Mar 10, 2026

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Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

About ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

OpenRouter makes ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite. It is served by Seed.

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite accepts text, images and video and returns text. It has a 262,144-token context window and a maximum output of 131,072 tokens.

On OpenRouter, ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite costs $0.25/M input tokens and $2.00/M output tokens. It was released on March 10, 2026.

More models from ByteDance Seed

  • Seedream 5.0 Lite
  • Seedream 5.0 Pro
  • Seed 2.1 Turbo

Frequently asked questions

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.

Seed-2.0-Lite costs $0.25/M input tokens and $2.00/M output tokens.

Seed-2.0-Lite has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 131,072 completion tokens.

Yes. Seed-2.0-Lite accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Seed-2.0-Lite accepts text, images and video as input and returns text.

Seed 2.1 Turbo, Seed-2.0-Code, Seed-2.0-Mini and 2 more are other text models from ByteDance Seed.

Seed-2.0-Lite was released on March 10, 2026.

$0.25$2.001.22s43 tps
100.00%

Throughput

43tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

1.22s

P50, best provider

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.98%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.98%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.99%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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