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ByteDance Seed · bytedance-seed-seed-2-0-lite
Input / 1M tokens
$0.250
Output / 1M tokens
$2.00
Context window
262,144 tokens
≈ 350 pages of text
Max output
131,072 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0011
1,000 requests / month$1.10/mo10,000 requests / month$11.00/mo100,000 requests / month$110.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Seed-2.0-Lite preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
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What it excels at
Cost-effective handling of long-context text and vision inputs with high output token capacity.
The business tradeoff
Reasoning depth lags behind flagship models; ecosystem and third-party tooling remain limited.
Cheaper from ByteDance Seed
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.