Model index · ByteDance Seed · updated 2026-08-16
ByteDance Seed models and prices
6 models, 6 with a published price · released 2025-12-23 to 2026-08-12.
ByteDance Seed does not sell these models — every price here is a host's price
That is the normal shape for a lab that publishes weights instead of selling inference: the model is theirs, the price is somebody else's. It also means there is no single official price to quote, only a market of hosts.
What ByteDance Seed makes
| Category | Models | Browse |
|---|---|---|
| Text | 6 | all Text models → |
Cheapest ByteDance Seed models per 1M tokens
Standard on-demand tier, cheapest host per model. Media models are priced in their own unit and listed further down rather than mixed into this table.
| Model | Blended /1M | Cheapest host | Quality | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed 1.6 Flash | $0.131 | OpenRouter (default route) * | not measured | 262k |
| Seed-2.0-Mini | $0.175 | OpenRouter (default route) * | not measured | 262k |
| Seed-2.0-Lite | $0.688 | OpenRouter (default route) * | not measured | 262k |
| Seed 1.6 | $0.688 | OpenRouter (default route) * | not measured | 262k |
| Seed 2.1 Turbo | $1.00 | OpenRouter (default route) * | not measured | 262k |
| Seed-2.0-Code | $1.13 | OpenRouter (default route) * | not measured | 262k |
Who sells ByteDance Seed models
Offering rows per seller across this vendor's models. A seller appearing many times serves many of the models, not the same one repeatedly.
| Seller | Offerings | |
|---|---|---|
| Seed | 6 | |
| OpenRouter (default route) | 6 |
One API for every ByteDance Seed model
VernaOne fronts the sellers on this page behind a single interface, so switching model or host is a config change — with automatic fallback if quality or latency regresses.
Try VernaOne free →All 6 ByteDance Seed models
Newest first, priced or not. A model with no price is a fact about what its sellers publish, not a gap we are hiding.
| Model | Category | Released | Price | Kind | Job |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed 2.1 Turbo | Text | 2026-08-12 | $1.00 /1M | reasoning | text generation |
| Seed-2.0-Code | Text | 2026-08-12 | $1.13 /1M | reasoning | text generation |
| Seed-2.0-Lite | Text | 2026-03-10 | $0.688 /1M | reasoning | text generation |
| Seed-2.0-Mini | Text | 2026-02-26 | $0.175 /1M | reasoning | text generation |
| Seed 1.6 Flash | Text | 2025-12-23 | $0.131 /1M | reasoning | text generation |
| Seed 1.6 | Text | 2025-12-23 | $0.688 /1M | reasoning | text generation |
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Frequently asked
How many models does ByteDance Seed have?
We track 6 ByteDance Seed models across 1 category, 6 of them with a published price. The list is rebuilt from provider APIs, the vendor's own docs and the weights registry rather than maintained by hand, so new releases appear without us writing about them.
Can I buy ByteDance Seed models directly from ByteDance Seed?
Not for the models on this page. Every price we hold for ByteDance Seed comes from a third-party host, which is what you would expect from a lab that publishes weights rather than selling inference.
Are ByteDance Seed models open weights?
None of the ByteDance Seed models we track publish weights, so they can only be used through an API.