Seed 2 Mini is ByteDance's language model with a 262K context window and up to 131K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.1 / 1M input and $0.4 / 1M output. A compact multimodal LLM built for low-latency, high-concurrency, cost-sensitive deployments with four-tier thinking support.
Specifications
Canonical IDbytedance-seed-2-mini
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorByteDanceByteDance
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output131K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 8 months ago

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video✓
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
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DeepInfra
deepinfra/ByteDance/Seed-2.0-mini
$0.1$0.4$0.02
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini
$0.1$0.4N/A

Cost Calculator

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Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Seed 2 Code—262K$0.500$3.00
Seed 2.1 Turbo—262K$0.431$2.16
Seed 2 LiteLite262K$0.250$2.00
Seed-TTS 2.0—————
Seed 2 ProPro—256K$0.500$3.00
Seed 1.6—262K$0.250$2.00
Seed 1.6 FlashFlash262K$0.075$0.300
Seed 1.8—256K$0.250$2.00

Model IDs

bytedance-seed-2-mini
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini
ByteDance/Seed-2.0-mini
deepinfra/ByteDance/Seed-2.0-mini
openrouter/bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini