ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini

bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini

Seed-2.0-mini targets latency-sensitive, high-concurrency, and cost-sensitive scenarios, emphasizing fast response and flexible inference deployment. It delivers performance comparable to ByteDance-Seed-1.6, supports 256k context, four reasoning effort modes (minimal/low/medium/high), multimodal understanding,...

Modalities

In / out price

$0.1 / $0.4 per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Feb 26, 2026

Why use Seed-2.0-Mini

Understands images
Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Structured (JSON) outputs

Pricing

Input	$0.1 / 1M tokens
Output	$0.4 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini	$0.0009	$0.880	$0.880

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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