# Seed 2.0 Lite: AI model fact sheet

- **Provider:** bytedance
- **Released:** 2026-03-10
- **Context window:** 262,144 tokens
- **API pricing:** $0.25 / 1M input, $2.00 / 1M output
- **OpenRouter ID:** bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
- **Capabilities:** conversation, reasoning, code-generation, analysis, data-extraction

Seed 2.0 Lite is a balanced model from ByteDance designed for high-frequency enterprise workloads, optimizing for both capability and cost. Its overall performance surpasses the previous-generation Seed 1.8, supporting reasoning with configurable effort levels, multimodal understanding, and structured outputs. Well-suited for production tasks such as unstructured information processing, text creation, search, recommendation, and data analysis.

Source: real side-by-side outputs, pricing and specs at https://rival.tips/models/seed-2.0-lite