How much does Seed-2.0-Mini cost?

Billing is usage-based: $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.4 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-Mini from inside Iran?

Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Seed-2.0-Mini 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-Mini 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-Mini support?

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

What reasoning modes does Seed-2.0-Mini offer?

It offers four reasoning effort modes. Minimal, low, medium and high. So you can choose faster, cheaper responses or deeper reasoning on a per-request basis.

How does Seed-2.0-Mini compare to Seed-2.0-Lite?

Mini prioritizes speed and cost for lightweight, high-concurrency tasks, with performance around the Seed 1.6 level. Seed-2.0-Lite is the broader multimodal workhorse for general production workloads. Choose Mini when latency and price matter most.

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini: AI model

Seed-2.0-Mini is ByteDance Seed's fast, low-cost multimodal model with four reasoning modes and a 256K context window. Served from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 262,144 tokens
Input:: $0.1/1M tokens
Output:: $0.4/1M tokens
Type:: text, image, video

Vision
Tools
Streaming
Long context

Thinking levels: high · medium · low · minimal

Seed-2.0-Mini targets latency-sensitive, high-concurrency and cost-sensitive scenarios, emphasizing fast responses and flexible deployment. It delivers performance comparable to the earlier Seed 1.6 while keeping cost and speed as the priority, which makes it well suited to lightweight tasks at high volume.

It accepts text, image and video input, returns text, and supports a 256K-token context window with outputs of up to about 128K tokens. It offers four reasoning effort modes (minimal, low, medium and high) plus tool calling and structured output, so you can tune the depth-versus-speed trade-off per request.

On Hormouz, Seed-2.0-Mini is served behind an OpenAI-compatible API and reachable from inside Iran without a foreign card. Billing is usage-based at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens.

Seed-2.0-mini targets latency-sensitive, high-concurrency, and cost-sensitive scenarios, emphasizing fast response and flexible inference deployment. It delivers performance comparable to ByteDance-Seed-1.6, supports 256k context, four reasoning effort modes (minimal/low/medium/high), multimodal understanding,...

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-mini",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	ByteDance Seed
Type	Text, Image, Video
Context window	262,144 tokens
Pricing	$0.10/M in · $0.40/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-mini",
    "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-mini",
    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-mini",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does Seed-2.0-Mini cost?: Billing is usage-based: $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.4 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-Mini from inside Iran?: Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Seed-2.0-Mini 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-Mini 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-Mini support?: Seed-2.0-Mini supports a context window of up to 262K tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.
What reasoning modes does Seed-2.0-Mini offer?: It offers four reasoning effort modes. Minimal, low, medium and high. So you can choose faster, cheaper responses or deeper reasoning on a per-request basis.
How does Seed-2.0-Mini compare to Seed-2.0-Lite?: Mini prioritizes speed and cost for lightweight, high-concurrency tasks, with performance around the Seed 1.6 level. Seed-2.0-Lite is the broader multimodal workhorse for general production workloads. Choose Mini when latency and price matter most.

Updated 2026-10-13