Seed-2.0-Lite
Seed-2.0-Lite is a cost-efficient enterprise workhorse with strong multimodal and agent capabilities and noticeably lower latency, which makes it a practical default for most production workloads.
Specifications
| Lab | ByteDance Seed |
|---|---|
| Context window | 262.1K tokens |
| Input price | $0.25/1M |
| Output price | $2.00/1M |
| Release | Mar 2026 |
Strengths
- Cost-effective enterprise workhorse
- Strong multimodal and agent capabilities
- Lower latency than full Seed 2.0
- Good all-around performance
Weaknesses
- Below flagship Seed 2.0 on complex reasoning
- Limited independent benchmarks
Best for
- Production enterprise workloads
- Cost-sensitive multimodal tasks
- High-throughput deployments
In Depth: Seed-2.0-Lite
Summary
Seed-2.0-Lite is an AI model from ByteDance Seed.
Released in Mar 2026. It currently appears in the Overall category on LMRank. It takes text, image, and video input and produces text output, with a context window of 262.1K tokens. Input pricing is $0.25 per 1M tokens and output is $2.00 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.