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Seed-2.0-Minibytedance/seed-2-0-mini

Seed-2.0-mini targets latency-sensitive, high-concurrency, and cost-sensitive scenarios, emphasizing fast response and flexible inference deployment. It delivers performance comparable to ByteDance-Seed-1.6, supports 256k context, four reasoning effort modes (minimal/low/medium/high), multimodal understanding,...

Cheapest blended:$0.17 / 1M tokenson ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine) · 1 provider listed

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seed-2.0-mini
$0.10$0.40$0.17—OpenAI-compatibleNeeds 27d agoTry →

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Works with

Point any of these clients at a hosting's base URL — they all speak at least one of this model's endpoint protocols (OPENAI_COMPATIBLE).

Capabilities

Code samples

Example using ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine) — the cheapest hosting for this model as of last verification. Swap base_url and model to use a different provider from the matrix above.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="seed-2.0-mini",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Technical specs

Context
262K
Max output
131K
Parameters
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Release
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Training cutoff
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License
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Frequently asked

How much does Seed-2.0-Mini cost?+
The cheapest public hosting is $0.17 per 1M blended tokens on ByteDance Doubao (Volcengine). 1 total providers are listed above with per-input / per-output / cached pricing.
How do I access Seed-2.0-Mini from outside China?+
All hostings listed above support global access. The official API (e.g. api.deepseek.com, dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com) accepts international credit cards and does not require a Chinese mobile number. For privacy-sensitive workloads, third-party aggregators like Together.ai host the model on US/EU infrastructure.
Is Seed-2.0-Mini open-source? Can I fine-tune it?+
Yes. Seed-2.0-Mini is open-weight under the unspecified license. Weights are available on Hugging Face for local inference, fine-tuning, and commercial use (see license for specific terms).
Is Seed-2.0-Mini OpenAI-compatible?+
Most listed hostings expose an OpenAI-compatible API, so you can point an existing openai SDK client at the Provider's base_url and use the Provider's model name. See the Code Samples above for a copy-pasteable example.
What's the maximum context window for Seed-2.0-Mini?+
The model supports up to 262,144 tokens of context (input + output). Some hosted versions may impose a smaller limit — check the "Context" column in the pricing matrix for each provider.