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Seed 2.0 Mini
Small, low-cost ByteDance reasoning model with text, image and audio input
Seed 2.0 Mini is a fast model from ByteDance. At ByteDance it costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens, with a 262K-token context window.
- Made by
- ByteDance
- Status
- Generally available
- Tier
- Fast
- Weights
- Closed
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Input
- text, image, audio
- API id
seed-2-0-mini-260428
Seed 2.0 Mini price at ByteDance
US dollars per million tokens. Blended is 3 input tokens for every output token, one number to compare on.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Blended | Batch | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ByteDance · maker | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.02 | $0.175 | – | 2026-10-22 |
- ByteDance: BytePlus ModelArk, online inference (standard), prompts up to 128K. 128K-256K: $0.20 in / $0.04 cached / $0.80 out. Audio input $1.50 ($0.30 cached) up to 128K. Cache storage $0.0083 per million tokens per hour. Batch pricing (50% off) is listed only for the earlier seed-2-0-mini-260215.
Models like Seed 2.0 Mini
Other fast models closest in price, at each maker's own price or the cheapest provider.
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed 2.0 Mini | $0.10 | $0.40 | 262K | Closed |
| NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super NVIDIA | $0.085 | $0.40 | 262K | Open |
| Mercury 3 Inception | $0.10 | $0.35 | 1M | Closed |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | $0.10 | $0.32 | 131K | Open |
| GPT-6 Luna OpenAI | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1.1M | Closed |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1M | Closed |
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Seed 2.0 Mini FAQ
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 at ByteDance, and $0.02 per million cached input tokens. Prices are list prices in US dollars, last checked 22 October 2026.
What is Seed 2.0 Mini's context window?
Seed 2.0 Mini takes up to 262,144 tokens in one request and writes up to 131,072 tokens in one response.
Is Seed 2.0 Mini open weight?
No. Seed 2.0 Mini is only available through ByteDance's API; ByteDance doesn't publish the weights.
Where can I use Seed 2.0 Mini?
Seed 2.0 Mini is available from ByteDance. At ByteDance, call it as seed-2-0-mini-260428.