Bytedance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
Seed-2.0-mini targets latency-sensitive, high-concurrency, and cost-sensitive scenarios, emphasizing fast response and flexible inference deployment. It delivers performance comparable to ByteDance-Seed-1.6, supports 256k context, four reasoning effort modes (minimal/low/medium/high), multimodal understanding,...
Specifications
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Lab | Bytedance Seed |
| Tags | Fast Multimodal |
| Release Date | 2026-02 |
| Context Window | 262,144 tokens |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.10 |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.40 |
| Input Modalities | Text, Image, Video |
| Output Modalities | Text |
Strengths
- Ultra-fast inference for latency-sensitive apps
- Very competitive pricing at $0.10/$0.40
- Four configurable reasoning modes
- 256K context with multimodal understanding
Weaknesses
- Limited deep reasoning capability
- Below larger Seed models on complex tasks
Best For
- High-concurrency production apps
- Latency-critical deployments
- Cost-sensitive batch processing
In Depth: Seed-2.0-Mini
Summary
Seed-2.0-Mini is an AI model from Bytedance Seed.
Released 2026-02. It currently appears in the Overall category on LMRank. It supports Text, Image, Video input and produces Text output, with a context window of 262,144 tokens. Input pricing is $0.10 per 1M tokens and output is $0.40 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.