Question 1

What is Seed 2.0 Mini?

Accepted Answer

Seed 2.0 Mini is a model from ByteDance, released on Feb 14, 2026. 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, and is optimized for lightweight tasks where cost and speed take priority.

Question 2

How much does Seed 2.0 Mini cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.10 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter, and output starts at $0.40 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter, after gateway discounts. Averaged across 2 providers, it costs $0.11 per 1M input tokens and $0.45 per 1M output tokens.

Question 3

Which providers serve Seed 2.0 Mini on Respan?

Accepted Answer

2 providers serve Seed 2.0 Mini: OpenRouter and EmpirioLabs.

Question 4

What is Seed 2.0 Mini's context window?

Accepted Answer

Seed 2.0 Mini accepts up to 262K tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use Seed 2.0 Mini with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "seed-2.0-mini". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is Seed 2.0 Mini?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was OpenRouter at 60 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 1.1 seconds on OpenRouter. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Provider	Context	Input	Output	Capabilities
OpenRouter`openrouter/bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-mini`	262K	$0.10/M	$0.40/M
EmpirioLabs`empiriolabs/seed-2-0-mini`	256K	$0.12/M	$0.50/M

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