Seed 2.0 Lite

Seed 2.0 Lite is a cost-efficient model from ByteDance's Seed line, designed for production chat, analysis, and structured generation. It is positioned as a lighter, more affordable option within the Seed 2.0 series, following the release of Seed 2.0 Code. It has a context window of 256,000 tokens and a maximum output of 131,072 tokens. Pricing starts at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.51 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.0169 per million tokens. The model does not have open weights. It supports reasoning mode, tool calling, and accepts image, text, and video inputs, returning text output.

First version of its line in the registry.

Range across the hosts that serve it: up to $0.0891 per 1M input tokens.

• ·256k token context window
• ·131k token max output
• ·Supports reasoning and tool calling
• ·Accepts image, text, and video input
• ·Priced from $0.08 per million input tokens

• Reach for it for production chat at scale
• Reach for it for structured data extraction
• Reach for it for multimodal analysis
• Reach for it for cost-sensitive generation

2 hosts serve this model at the price above · the maker's documentation

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What is the context window and output limit?

The context window is 256,000 tokens and the maximum output is 131,072 tokens.

Does it support tool calling and reasoning?

Yes, it supports both reasoning mode and tool calling.

What is the pricing?

Input starts at $0.08 per million tokens, output at $0.51 per million tokens, and cached input at $0.0169 per million tokens.