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Seed 2.0 Lite (Doubao)
Model family: seed-2-0
The balanced middle tier of ByteDance's Seed 2.0 line — most of Pro's multimodalA model that can handle more than one type of input or output — typically text plus images, sometimes plus audio or video. "GPT-4 Vision" and "Llama 3.2 11B Vision" are multimodal models that accept both text and images. A text-only model is called "unimodal" but nobody uses that term; text-only is the assumed default. ability at lower cost, API-only on Volcano Engine, aimed at everyday production work.
Identity
- Creator
- ByteDance
- Model family
- seed-2-0
- Release date
- 2026-02-13
Technical specs
- Parameter count
- Undisclosed; positioned below Seed 2.0 Pro as the balanced price/performance tier.
- Context window
- 256K tokens
- Modalities
- Image Input
- Text
- Video Input
- Primary capabilities
- Chat
- Instruction Following
- Long Context
- Multilingual
- Reasoning
- Tool Use
- Vision
License
- License
- ByteDance / Volcano Engine Proprietary Terms
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Terms
- Modification ✗
- Redistribution ✗
- Attribution ✗
Access
- Openness
- Closed Api
- Access methods
- Api First Party
- Cost tier
- Paid Api
- llm
- closed-api
- multimodal
- china-based
- long-context