ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite
bytedance/seed-2.0-lite
ByteDance-Seed-2.0-lite is a balanced model designed for high-frequency enterprise workloads, optimizing for both capability and cost. Its overall performance surpasses the previous-generation ByteDance-Seed-1.8. It is well-suited for production tasks such as unstructured information processing, text content creation, search and recommendation, and data analysis. The model supports long-context processing, multi-source information fusion, multi-step instruction execution, and high-fidelity structured outputs—delivering stable quality while significantly reducing cost.
Model specifications
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Context
- 256,000 tokens
- Max output
- 128,000 tokens
- Input price
- $0.25 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $2 / 1M tokens
- Released
- 2026-03-06
Capabilities
- Streaming
- Function calling
- JSON mode
- Playground
Provider pricing, discounts and data privacy
Compare effective provider prices, published discounts, regions, retention policies, training use, compliance, and privacy links by service tier.
Standard service tier
1 available provider · tier input average $0.25 / 1M tokens · tier output average $2 / 1M tokens
BytePlus
Tier: Standard · Region: SG
Pricing
- Input
- $0.25 / 1M tokens
- Output
- $2 / 1M tokens
No provider discount is currently published.
Data privacy and compliance
- Region
- SG
- Zero data retention
- No
- Data retention
- Unknown retention
- Used for training
- Unknown
- Data collection
- Moderated
- No
- GDPR compliant
- No
- HIPAA compliant
- No
- SOC 2 certified
- No
- BYOK supported
- No
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Frequently asked questions
- What is ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite?
- ByteDance-Seed-2.0-lite is a balanced model designed for high-frequency enterprise workloads, optimizing for both capability and cost. Its overall performance surpasses the previous-generation ByteDance-Seed-1.8. It is well-suited for production tasks such as unstructured information processing, text content creation, search and recommendation, and data analysis. The model supports long-context processing, multi-source information fusion, multi-step instruction execution, and high-fidelity structured outputs—delivering stable quality while significantly reducing cost.
- How much does ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite cost?
- Input costs start at $0.25 / 1M tokens and output costs start at $2 / 1M tokens. Provider-level prices vary by service tier.
- What is the context length of ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite?
- ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite supports a 256,000 token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens.
- What capabilities does ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite support?
- ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite supports Streaming, Function calling, JSON mode, Playground.
- Which providers offer ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite?
- ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite is available from BytePlus.
- How do providers handle data privacy for ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite?
- 1 of 1 providers report that customer data is not used for training, and 0 offer zero-data-retention routing. Retention, compliance, and privacy-policy links are listed per provider.