Doubao-Seed-2.0-lite

Doubao-Seed-2.0-lite

ByteDance’s lightweight large language model, suitable for everyday conversations and light-duty tasks that are cost-sensitive and demand high response speeds.
2026-02-14
LLM
Model capability: imageModel capability: videoModel capability: thinkingModel capability: function_call
Input:
$0.128/1M tokensstarting from
Output:
$0.78/1M tokensstarting from
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API Overview

Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite is a lightweight large language model launched by ByteDance, primarily positioned as a “cost-effective, low-latency general-purpose inference engine.” It’s ideal for everyday conversations and light-duty tasks that are highly sensitive to cost and require fast response times.

  • Lightweight and Efficient: While maintaining strong language understanding and generation capabilities, it significantly reduces computational resource consumption, enabling faster inference speeds and making it suitable for high-frequency use cases.
  • Comprehensive Basic Capabilities: It supports natural language question answering, text generation, simple logical reasoning, and multi-turn dialogues, meeting the needs of mainstream applications such as customer service, virtual assistants, and content summarization.
  • Low-Cost Deployment: Its per-token cost is notably lower than that of the Pro series, making it well-suited for large-scale integration.
  • Quick Integration: It is compatible with mainstream LLM interface protocols, allowing for rapid embedding into existing business systems.
  • Applicable Scenarios: Intelligent customer service, mobile assistant applications, IoT device interactions, marketing copy generation, educational question-and-answer systems, and other lightweight AI applications.

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Core Capabilities

💬 Smooth Everyday Conversations

It delivers stable performance in common topics, knowledge-based Q&A, and instruction following, providing natural and seamless interactions.

Low-Latency Responses

By optimizing inference paths, it achieves first-token returns within milliseconds, greatly enhancing the end-user experience on devices.

💰 Ultimate Cost-Effectiveness

With a low cost per unit output, it’s perfect for business scenarios requiring high concurrency and low per-request costs.

🔌 Standardized API Integration

The documentation is comprehensive, and integration testing can be completed in just 5 minutes.

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API Reference (1)

API DescriptionAPI EndpointRequest MethodStabilityParameter Description
Chat (ByteDance Doubao-Vision)
POST
Stable
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API Pricing

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Doubao-Seed-2.0-lite

[0, 32]k: The input price for cache creation is $0.86/M tokens, and the input price for cache reading is $0.017/M tokens
256000

Input$0.86 / 1M tokens
Output$0.514 / 1M tokens

Input$0.86/ 1M tokens
Output$0.514/ 1M tokens
Original Price

Doubao-Seed-2.0-lite

[32,128]k: The input price for cache creation is $0.128/M tokens, and the input price for cache reading is $0.0257/M tokens
256000

Input$0.128 / 1M tokens
Output$0.78 / 1M tokens

Input$0.128/ 1M tokens
Output$0.78/ 1M tokens
Original Price

Doubao-Seed-2.0-lite

[128,256]k: The input price for cache creation is $0.257/M tokens, and the input price for cache reading is $0.052/M tokens
256000

Input$0.257 / 1M tokens
Output$1.55 / 1M tokens

Input$0.257/ 1M tokens
Output$1.55/ 1M tokens
Original Price