Seed 2.0 Lite vs Seed Character: API price and specs

Seed 2.0 Lite is 26% cheaper than Seed Character on input price.

Seed Character is 42% cheaper than Seed 2.0 Lite on output price.

Seed Character is 6% cheaper than Seed 2.0 Lite on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Seed 2.0 Lite has a 2.4% larger context than Seed Character.

Field	Seed 2.0 Lite	Seed Character
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.08696	$0.12 +35.6%
Median input, per 1M	$0.25 +68.4%	$0.15
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.51 +73.1%	$0.29
Median output, per 1M	$2.00 +249.7%	$0.57
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.19 +6.9%	$0.18
Context	262K	256K +2.3%
Max output	131K +48.8%	256K
Providers	12	4 +66.7%
Regions	APAC	—
Accepts	audio, document, image, image/bmp, image/gif, image/heic, image/jp2, image/jpeg, image/png, image/sgi, image/tiff, image/webp, image/x-icns, image/x-icon, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/x-msvideo	image, text, video
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	qiniu-ai	zenmux

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

ofox, trustedrouter, volcengine, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Seed 2.0 Lite or Seed Character?

Seed 2.0 Lite is 26% cheaper than Seed Character on input price. Seed Character is 42% cheaper than Seed 2.0 Lite on output price. Seed Character is 6% cheaper than Seed 2.0 Lite on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Seed 2.0 Lite or Seed Character?

Seed 2.0 Lite: 262K tokens; Seed Character: 256K tokens.

Where can I use both Seed 2.0 Lite and Seed Character?

ofox, trustedrouter, volcengine, zenmux