ByteDance: Seed 2.0 Lite
Seed 2.0 Lite is a language model from ByteDance released on Feb 28, 2026. It reads text and writes text, with a 131K token context window and up to 33K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.25 / $2 per 1M
- Context
- 131K
- Max output
- 33K
- Released
- Feb 28, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Seed 2.0 Lite pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.25 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $2 / 1M tokens |
What Seed 2.0 Lite costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Seed 2.0 Lite through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Temperature
temperature
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Seed 2.0 Lite questions
How much does the Seed 2.0 Lite API cost?
$0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Seed 2.0 Lite?
131,072 tokens of input, and it can write up to 32,768 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Does Seed 2.0 Lite support tool calling?
Not through the standard tools parameter. For an agent that calls your APIs, pick a model from the alternatives below that does.
Is Seed 2.0 Lite open source?
No. ByteDance serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Seed 2.0 Lite released?
Feb 28, 2026.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.