ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite

Released Mar 10, 2026262,144 context

Starting at $0.25/M input tokensStarting at $2/M output tokens

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 text, vision, and tools. Engineered for high-frequency visual understanding and agentic workflows, it's an ideal choice for deployment at scale with minimal latency.

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite

Released Mar 10, 2026262,144 context

Starting at $0.25/M input tokensStarting at $2/M output tokens

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 text, vision, and tools. Engineered for high-frequency visual understanding and agentic workflows, it's an ideal choice for deployment at scale with minimal latency.

Sample code and API for Seed-2.0-Lite

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

OpenRouter supports reasoning-enabled models that can show their step-by-step thinking process. Use the reasoning parameter in your request to enable reasoning, and access the reasoning_details array in the response to see the model's internal reasoning before the final answer. When continuing a conversation, preserve the complete reasoning_details when passing messages back to the model so it can continue reasoning from where it left off. Learn more about reasoning tokens.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.