What is Seed-2.0-Lite API?
Seed-2.0-Lite is available through AIMLAPI.
Technical Specifications
- Supported inputs: Image, Text
- Output: Text
- Context window: 262,144 tokens / Max output: 131,072 tokens
- Endpoint: /chat/completions
Performance Benchmarks
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Seed-2.0-Lite API Pricing
- Input: $0.325 / 1M tokens
- Output: $2.6 / 1M tokens
Where to Use Seed-2.0-Lite
Coding and code review
Generate, debug, and review code across languages, reading whole files or repos in a single prompt.
Agentic and multi-step workflows
Reliable tool-calling and instruction-following suit agent loops that plan, call tools, and iterate.
Complex reasoning
Extended reasoning improves reliability on multi-step math, logic, and technical analysis.
Long-document analysis
Summarize and extract from contracts, papers, and reports without aggressive chunking.
Code Sample
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Measured on the AI/ML API gateway across live traffic. Figures are medians unless stated. Last updated 2026-10-12.
Seed 2.0 Lite is documented as suited to high-frequency enterprise workloads such as unstructured information processing, including document parsing, receipt recognition, and contract analysis.
It is also documented for text content creation, including marketing copy, product descriptions, and content summarization.
Another stated use case is search and recommendation, including semantic understanding, intent recognition, and content ranking.
It is additionally documented for data analysis, including report interpretation, chart understanding, and trend analysis.
import requests r = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}, json={ "model": "bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }, ) print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }), }); console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
| Type | Price |
|---|---|
| Input | |
| Output | |
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Seed-2.0-Lite This page | Reasoning + agents | |||
| Reasoning + agents | ||||
| Balanced coding + agents | ||||
| Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows | ||||
| Reasoning + agents |
Seed-2.0-Lite has a 262,144 tokens context window and can return up to 131,072 tokens.
Seed-2.0-Lite takes image, text as input and returns text.
Use bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
Seed-2.0-Lite is priced at input $0.34385 / 1M tokens, output $2.7508 / 1M tokens.
Yes, Seed-2.0-Lite can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, Seed-2.0-Lite accepts image input alongside text.
Seed-2.0-Lite was built by ByteDance.
