How much does Seed-2.0-Lite cost?

Billing is usage-based: $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens. There is no monthly minimum. You pay only for the tokens you actually use.

How do I access Seed-2.0-Lite from inside Iran?

Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Seed-2.0-Lite is served from inside Iran, so you do not need a foreign credit card, a VPN or any sanction-circumvention tooling.

Is Seed-2.0-Lite compatible with the OpenAI SDK?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and drop in your Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.

What context window does Seed-2.0-Lite support?

Seed-2.0-Lite supports a context window of up to 262K tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.

What is Seed-2.0-Lite best used for?

It is built as a practical default for production: multimodal assistants, high-frequency visual understanding and agentic workflows that need low latency at scale. Its reasoning and tool-calling support make it a flexible general-purpose engine.

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite: AI model

Seed-2.0-Lite is ByteDance Seed's cost-efficient multimodal workhorse with strong agent capabilities and a 256K context window. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 262,144 tokens
Input:: $0.25/1M tokens
Output:: $2/1M tokens
Type:: text, image, video

Vision
Tools
Streaming
Long context

Thinking levels: high · medium · low · minimal

Seed-2.0-Lite is a cost-efficient, versatile model from ByteDance Seed designed as a practical default for most production workloads. It delivers strong multimodal and agent capabilities while offering noticeably lower latency, so it can handle high-frequency visual understanding and agentic tasks at scale.

It accepts text, image and video input, returns text, and supports a 256K-token context window with outputs of up to about 128K tokens. Reasoning, tool calling and structured output are supported, which makes it suitable as a general-purpose engine for assistants, document and video workflows, and automation.

Through Hormouz, Seed-2.0-Lite is served behind an OpenAI-compatible API and reachable from inside Iran without a foreign credit card. Billing is usage-based at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens.

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...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	ByteDance Seed
Type	Text, Image, Video
Context window	262,144 tokens
Pricing	$0.25/M in · $2.00/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Vision · Tools

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does Seed-2.0-Lite cost?: Billing is usage-based: $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens. There is no monthly minimum. You pay only for the tokens you actually use.
How do I access Seed-2.0-Lite from inside Iran?: Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Seed-2.0-Lite is served from inside Iran, so you do not need a foreign credit card, a VPN or any sanction-circumvention tooling.
Is Seed-2.0-Lite compatible with the OpenAI SDK?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and drop in your Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.
What context window does Seed-2.0-Lite support?: Seed-2.0-Lite supports a context window of up to 262K tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.
What is Seed-2.0-Lite best used for?: It is built as a practical default for production: multimodal assistants, high-frequency visual understanding and agentic workflows that need low latency at scale. Its reasoning and tool-calling support make it a flexible general-purpose engine.

Updated 2026-10-13