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  3. Seed 2.0 Code
Updated Aug 18, 2026
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Openings

How Seed 2.0 Code starts an answer

The first lines of 5 of its 24 written answers. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Michelin Star Recipe Design

Design an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. The recipe should feature an unusual…

1,929 words
Dish Name: Conflux No. 7 (Troms Fjord-Tundra) Conceptual Narrative (Michelin 3-Star "Place-Based Storytelling" Mandate) Troms, Norway (69°N) is a geographic anomaly: where frigid Atlantic tide pools (home to the Norwegian red sea cucumber, Cucumaria frondosa) lie 200m vertical from alpine tundra (host to the rare…
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Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

1,757 words
Hour-by-Hour 48-Hour Action Plan (T=0 = 9AM Day 1; Board Meeting = 9AM Day 3 = T=48; Earnings Call = 9AM Day 4 = T=72) Core Guiding Principle: Prioritize patient safety and legal/regulatory compliance (non-negotiable fiduciary and ethical duties) while minimizing unnecessary financial/PR volatility.
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Debug This Architecture

Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…

1,733 words
Analysis of Issues & Remediations We categorize flaws in the original architecture into Race Conditions, Failure Modes, and Scaling Bottlenecks, with specific, actionable solutions and their trade-offs for each. Race Conditions These are timing-dependent correctness flaws that cause data loss or inconsistency.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

1,555 words
Explanation for an Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical of "Next-Word Prediction" as Intelligence) As someone who’s built distributed systems, you’ve almost certainly written code that predicts something—e.g., a log parser that infers a race condition from 5 consecutive partial log lines, or an API rate limiter…
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

1,459 words
Core Plausibility Anchor: 1920 Transistor Invention To avoid anachronism, this timeline uses a gradual, realistic transistor evolution: 1920: Bell Labs (Walter Schottky, Oliver Buckley) patents a crude impure germanium point-contact transistor — only useful for low-power audio amplification (radios), not digital logic.
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Seed 2.0 Code

Seed 2.0 Code

Seed:
2.0 Lite logo2.0 Lite
2.1 Turbo logo2.1 Turbo
2.0 Code logo2.0 Code

ByteDance Seed's coding-agent model. Suited to frontend work, multilingual programming, and coding agents such as Claude Code, Kilo and OpenCode.

OpenRouter
Provider
ByteDance
Released
2026-08-12
Size
LARGE
Free API (OpenRouter)
No
Per 1M tokens
$0.50 in · $3 out
Rival’s tab
$1.61
58/58 receipts survived

Free API availability

No free endpoint for Seed 2.0 Code was found in Rival’s OpenRouter listings. Other providers or chat apps may have separate free offers.

Provider data: 16 Sep 2026 · OpenRouter usage limits

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Get API accessProvider and language code samples
Provider
fromimport openai  OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"    base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY"    api_key=,
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
"bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-code"    model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!"    messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.

Deep analysisPsychometrics, taste index, writing DNA
Writing DNA

Stylometric Fingerprint

Based on 27 text responses
Tick = global average
Vocabulary Diversity56%

Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.

Sentence Length32.6 words

Average words per sentence.

Hedging0.24

"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.

Bold Formatting3.1

**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.

List Usage3.0

Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.

Section Structure1.66

Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.

Emoji Usage0.00

Emoji per 1,000 characters.

Transitions0.03

"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.

Opening Habits
Starts with heading (70%)
Consistency
80%
Across 27 responses

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The Godfather

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City

Kyoto

Japan
Minecraft

Game

Minecraft

Action, Arcade4.4
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