Seed-2.0-Mini
About this model
Seed-2.0-Mini is an AI model from ByteDance Seed, made available through the API on February 26, 2026. It can read up to 262,144 tokens in one request, roughly 492 pages of text, and write up to 131,072 tokens in a single answer. Besides text, it accepts images and video as input.
Through the API it costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens. Its pricing puts it among the more affordable models we track, which makes it a good fit for high-volume tasks.
It supports extended reasoning: it can "think" step by step before answering, which helps on maths, code and complex questions. It can call tools and functions, so developers can connect it to search, databases or other software.
Quality scores
Rankings →Not rated yet. Independent test results usually appear a few weeks after a model is released.
Where to use it
Companies that serve this model through an API: 1. Prices per million tokens, cheapest first.
Availability and prices come from OpenRouter’s public API and are refreshed daily. Uptime is the share of successful requests over the last 24 hours. Some providers run a compressed version of open models (fp8, int4), which is cheaper but can be slightly less accurate.
Use it in your code
Call Seed-2.0-Mini through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API: create a key on openrouter.ai, then run one of these examples.
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}]}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY });
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! What can you do?" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);The same code works with every model on this site: only the model ID changes. Many labs also offer their own API and SDK.
What it costs in practice
- 1,000 chat replies$0.17
- Summarise a 100-page document$0.0054
- An app with 10,000 requests a day for a month$78.00
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Frequently asked questions
- How much does Seed-2.0-Mini cost?
- Seed-2.0-Mini costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens through the API. For example, 1,000 chat replies of about 500 tokens in and 300 out cost around $0.17.
- What is the context window of Seed-2.0-Mini?
- Seed-2.0-Mini can read up to 262,144 tokens in one request, about 492 pages of text. It can write up to 131,072 tokens in a single answer.
- Is Seed-2.0-Mini open source?
- No. Seed-2.0-Mini is a closed model: its weights are not published, so you use it through ByteDance Seed’s own apps and API, or through cloud providers.
- Who makes Seed-2.0-Mini?
- Seed-2.0-Mini is made by ByteDance Seed. It became available through the API on February 26, 2026.
- Can Seed-2.0-Mini read images?
- Yes. Besides text, it accepts images and video as input.
- What are the alternatives to Seed-2.0-Mini?
- Models with a similar price from other companies include GPT-6 Luna Pro, Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor and Reka Edge. You can compare them side by side on this page.