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ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini

BYTEDANCE-SEED Developer Architecture Profile

OpenRouter ↗HuggingFace ↗
Intelligence (ELO)1290Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context262,144Tokens
API Cost / 1M$0.50Blended Prompt + Completion

Model Capabilities

  • Drafting
  • Classification
  • Top Tier
  • Coding & Logic
  • Fictional
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, and is optimized for lightweight tasks where cost and speed take priority.

Granular Pricing Matrix

Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.10 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$0.40 / 1M

Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026

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