Identity
- Status
- active
- Developer ID
seed-2.0-lite- Released
- Feb 14, 2026
- Version
- Seed 2.0 Lite
- License
- Unknown
ByteDance SeedSeed 2.0 Lite
Seed 2.0 Lite is a ByteDance Seed model for multimodal reasoning and agentic productivity.
- Token context
- Unknown
- Inputs
- Text, Image, Video, Audio
- Outputs
- Text
- Released
- Feb 14, 2026
Providers & Pricing
Estimate workload cost →| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache read / 1M | Cache write / 1M | Observed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 OpenrouterAvailable | $0.25 | $2.00 | — | — | Sep 4, 2026 | Provider-reported |
At a Glance
Model Facts
Capacity
- Token context
- Unknown
- Maximum output
- Unknown
- Total parameters
- Unknown
- Active parameters
- Unknown
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
Interface and Access
- Inputs
- Text, Image, Video, Audio
- Outputs
- Text
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Vision
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Capabilities
- agents, chat, generation, reasoning, structured outputs, tools
This page represents one developer model product. Dated API snapshots, serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach as versioned aliases or provider details and never create duplicate public model records.
Version Lineage
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
Aliasesseed-2.0-lite, Seed 2.0 Lite
Explicit Unknowns
- Maximum output
- Architecture
- Tokenizer
- Knowledge cutoff
Primary Evidence
Sources and Observation Date
Comparable Peers
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Questions
Seed 2.0 Lite FAQs
What is Seed 2.0 Lite?+
Seed 2.0 Lite is a ByteDance Seed model for multimodal reasoning and agentic productivity. It is developed by ByteDance Seed and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.
What inputs and outputs does Seed 2.0 Lite support?+
Seed 2.0 Lite's current record lists Text, Image, Video, and Audio as input and Text as output.
Is Seed 2.0 Lite available through an API?+
Seed 2.0 Lite is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Openrouter.
How much does Seed 2.0 Lite cost through an API?+
The lowest directly sourced prices currently attached to Seed 2.0 Lite are $0.25 per million input tokens through Openrouter and $2.00 per million output tokens through Openrouter. Prices are provider-specific and should be checked against each cited observation date.
What capabilities and tasks does Seed 2.0 Lite support?+
Seed 2.0 Lite's recorded capabilities are agents, chat, generation, reasoning, structured outputs, and tools. Its supported tasks are audio, image, reasoning, text, and video.
Can Seed 2.0 Lite be self-hosted?+
Seed 2.0 Lite is not marked as an open-weight model. Self-hosting is marked as unsupported, with no license recorded.
Does Seed 2.0 Lite have related versions or aliases?+
No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are seed-2.0-lite and Seed 2.0 Lite.
Which models can Seed 2.0 Lite be compared with?+
The current compatible peer set includes GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Grok 4.6. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →
How current is the Model Markets record for Seed 2.0 Lite?+
Seed 2.0 Lite was last verified Sep 3, 2026 from ByteDance Seed's primary source, “Seed 2.0 Code | ByteDance Seed.” The evidence is classified as official fact.