bytedance-seed
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
Our take
AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.
According to the OpenRouter catalog, Seed-2.0-Lite is a ByteDance Seed model that accepts text, image, and video inputs and returns text, with a 262,144-token context window. The catalog describes it as a cost-efficient, lower-latency option for production workloads with multimodal and agent capabilities; these are source-reported claims, not measured results. Supported parameters include adjustable reasoning effort, tool calling, and structured outputs. No independent model card was available in this source pack, so capabilities should be validated on real workloads.[1]
Strengths
- Accepts text, image, and video inputs and produces text output, with a 262,144-token context window listed in the OpenRouter catalog.[1]
- Supports tunable reasoning effort from none to high, tool calling, and structured outputs, per the catalog's parameter list.[1]
- The catalog positions it as a cost-efficient, lower-latency choice for production use; treat this as a reported claim rather than measured performance.[1]
Limitations
- Evidence comes only from the OpenRouter catalog; no independent model card was available in this source pack, so reported capabilities are unverified.[1]
- No benchmark results were supplied; the catalog's benchmark fields are empty or null, so real-world performance is unmeasured here.[1]
- Knowledge cutoff, licensing, and hardware requirements are not listed; a missing field means unknown, not a negative capability.[1]
Where to use it
- Worth evaluating for multimodal assistants that combine text, image, and video inputs in a single request.[1]
- A candidate for agent-style workflows needing tool calling and structured outputs at production scale, subject to workload validation.[1]
- May suit long-context tasks such as document analysis within its listed 262,144-token window.[1]
Sources
- [1] OpenRouter catalog · ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-LiteSources checked: Nov 13, 2026
About this model
Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.
Seed-2.0-Lite is a versatile, cost‑efficient enterprise workhorse that delivers strong multimodal and agent capabilities while offering noticeably lower latency, making it a practical default choice for most production workloads across...
Specifications
- Model ID
- bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
- Canonical ID
- bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite-20260309
- Creator
- bytedance-seed
- Added to OpenRouter
- 10.03.2026
- Context length
- 262,144
- Modality
- text+image+video->text
- Input modalities
- text, image, video
- Output modalities
- text
- Token pricing
- USD per 1M tokens: in $0.250 / out $2
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Expiration date
- —
Tasks and capabilities
A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.
| Task | Grade | Source-declared capability |
|---|---|---|
| General quality | No measurement | reasoning: optional · default medium · efforts: high, medium, low, minimal, none · parameters: include_reasoning, reasoning, reasoning_effort |
| Coding | No measurement | — |
| Agents | No measurement | parameters: structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools |
| Writing | No measurement | output: text |
| Reasoning | No measurement | reasoning: optional · default medium · efforts: high, medium, low, minimal, none · parameters: include_reasoning, reasoning, reasoning_effort |
| Document analysis | No measurement | — |
| Vision | No measurement | input: image |
| Image generation | No measurement | — |
| Audio | No measurement | — |
| Video | No measurement | input: video |
| Embeddings | No measurement | — |
Evaluations
No evaluations are supplied for this model.
How grades work
Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.
- S — S — top 10% of the cohort
- A — A — next 20% of the cohort
- B — B — next 30% of the cohort
- C — C — below the B band
Providers
Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Provider | Context length | Price in /1M | Price out /1M | Latency p50 (30m, s) | Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s) | Uptime (30m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedfp8 | 262,144 | $0.250 | $2 | — | — | 100% |
Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026
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