Seed 2 Lite is ByteDance's language model with a 262K context window and up to 131K output tokens, starting at $0.250 / 1M input and $2.00 / 1M output. A cost-efficient enterprise multimodal LLM delivering strong agent capabilities with noticeably lower latency for high-throughput workloads.
Specifications
Canonical IDbytedance-seed-2-lite
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorByteDanceByteDance
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output131K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 3 months ago

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
$0.250$2.00

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