Seed-2.0-Mini
ByteDance Seed · released Feb 26, 2026
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we have no record of published weights
Our take
Written Sep 2, 2026Seed-2.0-Mini is a proprietary multimodal model from ByteDance that accepts text, images and video, with a 262,144-token request limit. It is available from three hosts at identical rates, though no quality scores or parameter count are published.
Pick this for long-context document or video analysis where a quarter-million-token request limit is needed and a proprietary licence is acceptable. Use it when consistent output pricing matters more than which provider you choose. Skip it if you need verified quality scores, clear commercial licence terms, or open weights.
The case for it
- Very large request limit for its price tier: 262,144 tokens.
- Identical pricing across all three tracked hosts, so provider choice does not affect cost.
The case against it
- No verified quality scores in our data — no Elo, MMLU or other scores published.
- Proprietary weights with no licence terms disclosed; commercial terms are unclear.
- Throughput only verified on one of three hosts.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
So there is no figure here for everyday use, coding, agent work or writing. That is a gap in our data, not a low score.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 2 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.10 in / $0.40 out
- Context served
- 262K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.10 / $0.40checked 2 hours ago | 262K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| DeepInfraDirect | $0.10 / $0.40checked 2 hours ago | 256K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Seedfp8Through OpenRouter | $0.10 / $0.40checked 2 hours ago | 262K131K max reply | 74 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
DeepInfraAcross the 3 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 2 do not say. 1 appears in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DeepInfraDirect | |||
| Seedfp8Through OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 2 of 3 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. JSON output: 2 of 3 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. Strict schema: 2 of 3 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list.
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- No independent board has scored it, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- 1 of 3 listings publishes no parameter list, so what its API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 2 of 3 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text, images and video in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- bytedance-seed-seed-2-0-mini