Bytedance Seed: 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... Cost-effective enterprise workhorse Strong multimodal and agent capabilities Lower latency than full Seed 2.0 Good all-around performance Below flagship Seed 2.0 on complex reasoning Limited independent benchmarks Production enterprise workloads Cost-sensitive multimodal tasks High-throughput deployments
Specifications
| Lab | Bytedance Seed |
|---|---|
| Context window | 262,144 |
| Input price | $0.25/1M |
| Output price | $2.00/1M |
| Release | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 |
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 2026-03-01 00:00:00. It currently appears in the Overall category on LMRank. It supports Text, image, 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.