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ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite pricing

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… ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite from OpenRouter costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens. Context window 262,144 tokens.

API id bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose

$0.250
Input / 1M tokens
$2.00
Output / 1M tokens
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Cached input / 1M
262K
Context window

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite specifications

Provider
OpenRouter
API id
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
Model type
general-purpose
Context window
262K tokens
Max output
131K tokens
Currency
USD
Price source
Provider API
Last checked
2026-09-25

Tags

  • fast
  • vision

What ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensEstimated cost
Short chat turn1,000500$0.0013
Document summary50,0002,000$0.02
1M tokens in, 200K out1,000,000200,000$0.65

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Common questions

How much does ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite cost per 1M tokens?
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
What is ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite's context window?
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite accepts up to 262,144 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 131,072 output tokens.
Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite?
Yes. MythoMax 13B is $0.080 per 1M input tokens versus $0.250 for ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite, with a 8,192 token context window.
Where does this ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite price come from?
From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.

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