Seed 2.0 Lite pricing
Seed 2.0 Lite, Small-tier from OpenRouter, costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens.
Input$0.25per 1M tokens
Output$2.00per 1M tokens
Context window262Ktokens
TierSmallOpenRouter
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Specs and pricing
| Provider | OpenRouter |
| Tier | Small |
| Context window | 262K tokens |
| Max output | 131K tokens |
| Input price | $0.25 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $2.00 / 1M tokens |
| Modalities | text, image, video |
Note. ByteDance's Seed (Doubao) model line, supports text, image and video input.
What it costs at realistic volumes
Assuming a 4:1 input:output token ratio, a common shape for chat and RAG-style workloads:
| Volume (4:1 in:out ratio) | Input cost | Output cost | Total / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000,000 in / 250,000 out | $0.25 | $0.50 | $0.75 |
| 10,000,000 in / 2,500,000 out | $2.50 | $5.00 | $7.50 |
| 100,000,000 in / 25,000,000 out | $25.00 | $50.00 | $75.00 |
Cheaper alternatives
Same tier (Small), a different provider, and a lower blended cost at the 4:1 ratio used above:
| Model | Provider | $/1M in | $/1M out | At the 4:1 ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbo | DeepInfra | $0.02 | $0.04 | 96% cheaper blended |
| schematron-v2-turbo | inference.net | $0.03 | $0.15 | 91% cheaper blended |
| Amazon Nova Micro | Amazon (Nova) | $0.035 | $0.14 | 90.7% cheaper blended |
| Command R7B | Cohere | $0.0375 | $0.15 | 90% cheaper blended |
| GPT-OSS 20B | Novita AI | $0.04 | $0.15 | 89.7% cheaper blended |