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Seed 2.0 Lite

Cost-efficient ByteDance Seed 2.0 model for production chat, analysis, and structured generation

8 providers · 8 listingsreleased closed weights
$0.089
lowest input /M · Volcengine Ark
$0.534
lowest output /M · Volcengine Ark
262K
context window
131K
max output

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7 of 8 providers publish a price for Seed 2.0 Lite. The cheapest full-context option is Volcengine Ark at $0.089/$0.534 per M. Listed prices span 4.5× for identical weights.

8 listings
Cache read /MCache write /MCapabilitiesStatus
Volcengine Ark
doubao-seed-2-0-lite-260428
$0.089$0.534$0.018—256KreasoningtoolsstructuredvisionFeb 14, 2026
Ofox
volcengine/doubao-seed-2.0-lite
$0.13$0.76$0.03$0.0024256KreasoningtoolsstructuredvisionFeb 14, 2026
NanoGPT
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
$0.25$2$0.125—262Kno reasoningno toolsstructuredvisionFeb 14, 2026
Kilo Gateway
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
$0.25$2——262KreasoningtoolsstructuredvisionFeb 14, 2026
Merge Gateway
bytedance/dola-seed-2.0-lite
$0.25$2——131Kno reasoningno toolsno structuredno visionFeb 28, 2026
OpenRouter
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
$0.25$2——262KreasoningtoolsstructuredvisionFeb 14, 2026
EmpirioLabs AI
seed-2-0-lite
$0.31$2.50$0.31—256KreasoningtoolsstructuredvisionFeb 14, 2026
Volcengine Ark Coding Plan
doubao-seed-2.0-lite
——$0—256KreasoningtoolsstructuredvisionFeb 14, 2026
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Best price history

Daily lowest published price across live providers. A lower line is better for the buyer.

Best input /M
$0.089▼ 31.5%
Best output /M
$0.534▼ 29.7%
Provider coverage
8
6 at the start · 24 snapshots
Best published input and output price historyDaily lowest published price per one million tokens. Accent is input price and violet is output price. The vertical scale starts at zero.$0$0.41$0.821Aug 21, 2026Sep 1, 2026Sep 14, 2026
Best input priceBest output priceAug 21, 2026 → Sep 14, 2026

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Recent changes

Changelog →
  • capabilityvia nano-gpt · Sep 9, 2026
    • attachment: false → true
    • modalities.input: text → text,image,video
  • contextvia volcengine · Aug 28, 2026
    • output: 32K → 131K tokens
  • capabilityvia volcengine · Aug 28, 2026
    • structured_output: — → true
  • new providervia volcengine-coding-plan · Aug 28, 2026
  • capabilityvia ofox · Aug 28, 2026
    • structured_output: — → true
  • new providervia volcengine · Aug 26, 2026

Prices are per million tokens (USD). “—” means the provider does not publicly list a price for this model. Data from models.dev; verify with the provider before purchasing.