Seed-2.0-Mini
ByteDance Seed · released Feb 26, 2026
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we hold no downloadable copy
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026Seed-2.0-Mini is ByteDance Seed's proprietary multimodal model that accepts text, images and video, with a 262,144-token request limit. It is a long-context option with identical rates across its three providers, though no quality scores or parameter details are available to judge it against alternatives.
Pick this for long-context multimodal tasks where you need to process long documents or videos in a single request, and you want predictable costs across providers. Skip it if you need verified quality data, self-hosting flexibility, or measured throughput on your chosen provider.
The case for it
- Very large context window for long-document or long-video analysis, at 262,144 tokens — the only scale figure we hold for this model.
- Identical pricing across all three tracked providers, so cost is predictable when switching hosts.
The case against it
- No verified quality or speed data to justify its price against alternatives: zero benchmark scores in our data, throughput unmeasured on two of three providers, and parameter count undisclosed.
- Proprietary weights with no licence flexibility — not open weights, not Apache, not commercially permissive.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Seed-2.0-Mini — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Cheapest of 3 live listings. Picked at the widest standard context we hold, within one quantisation slice, so the numbers beside it are a price one host actually charges.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.10 / $0.40 | 262K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| DeepInfra | $0.10 / $0.40 | 256K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Seedfp8 | $0.10 / $0.40 | 262K | 63 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
DeepInfraAcross the 3 listings we hold: 1 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 2 do not say. 1 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DeepInfra | |||
| Seedfp8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- 1 of 3 listings publish no parameter list, so what their 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.
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
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+image+video->text
- Catalogue slug
- bytedance-seed-seed-2-0-mini