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ByteDance Seed · Released Feb 14, 2026

Seed 2.0 Pro

Flagship ByteDance Seed 2.0 model for complex multimodal reasoning and long-horizon agent workflows.

  • Proprietary
  • Reasoning
  • Tool calling
  • Vision
  • Video input
Capability
—No ECI score yet
Input
$0.475per 1M tokens
Output
$2.37per 1M tokens
Context
256K128K max output
Pricing

What it costs

Input
$0.475per million tokens
Output
$2.37per million tokens
Cached input
$0.095per million tokens
Over 32K tokens
$0.712 / $3.56input / output per million
Blended (3:1)
$0.95pricier than 54% of priced models

Typical monthly bills

Monthly usageEstimated cost
Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens$2.14
Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens$23.75
Production app250M input + 50M output tokens$237.49

Official Volcengine Ark API price, as listed on models.dev.

Capability

Independent benchmarks

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Seed 2.0 Pro yet.

Specifications

The details

Lab
ByteDance Seed
Released
Feb 14, 2026
Context window
256,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
Inputs
Text, Images, Video
Output
Text
Reasoning
Adjustable effort minimal · low · medium · high · xhigh · max
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Weights
Proprietary
API model ID
doubao-seed-2-0-pro-260215on Volcengine Ark
Availability
5 API providerslisted on models.dev

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Questions

About Seed 2.0 Pro

How much does Seed 2.0 Pro cost?

Seed 2.0 Pro costs $0.475 input / $2.37 output per million tokens (official Volcengine Ark API price). Cached input is $0.095 per million tokens. Requests over 32K tokens are billed at $0.712 input / $3.56 output. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.95 per million tokens, more expensive than 54% of the 360 priced models we track.

What is the context window of Seed 2.0 Pro?

Seed 2.0 Pro accepts up to 256,000 tokens per request and can write up to 128,000 tokens in one response.

How good is Seed 2.0 Pro?

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Seed 2.0 Pro yet.

Is Seed 2.0 Pro open source?

No. Seed 2.0 Pro is proprietary; you use it through Volcengine Ark’s API or partner platforms.

What inputs does Seed 2.0 Pro support?

Seed 2.0 Pro accepts text, images and video and replies in text. It is a reasoning model with minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh and max effort settings, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.

When was Seed 2.0 Pro released?

ByteDance Seed released Seed 2.0 Pro on Feb 14, 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Seed 2.0 Pro?

The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed (MiniMax, $0.60 / $2.40), DeepSeek OCR 2 (DeepSeek, $0.89 / $1.47), Qwen3.5 27B (Alibaba (Qwen), $0.30 / $2.40) and Nova 2 Lite (Amazon, $0.33 / $2.75).