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ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite is a versatile, cost‑efficient enterprise workhorse that delivers strong multimodal and agent capabilities while offering noticeably lower…

ByteDance SeedSeed-2.0-Lite
bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
2026-03-10text+image+video->textreasoning: high / medium / low / minimal / none
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Seed-2.0-Lite is a versatile, cost‑efficient enterprise workhorse that delivers strong multimodal and agent capabilities while offering noticeably lower latency, making it a practical default choice for most production workloads across...
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openrouter.ai/bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite
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  1. Stored model catalog — Nov 5, 2026
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Seed-2.0-Lite is a versatile, cost‑efficient enterprise workhorse that delivers strong multimodal and agent capabilities while offering noticeably lower…
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