The small, fast ByteDance Seed model is Seed-2.0-Lite — the efficient tier at 80 tokens/sec and $0.250 per million input tokens. It trades a few points of raw intelligence for speed and cost, the right call for high-volume, latency-sensitive work. Seed 1.6 Flash (64 t/s) and Seed-2.0-Mini (54 t/s) round out the top three.
Compact, efficient models — the small/mini/flash/haiku tier — ranked by output speed. These trade a little raw intelligence for low cost and high throughput, which is the right tradeoff for chat, classification, extraction and other high-volume work.
The small, fast ByteDance Seed model is Seed-2.0-Lite — the efficient tier at 80 tokens/sec and $0.250 per million input tokens. It trades a few points of raw intelligence for speed and cost, the right call for high-volume, latency-sensitive work. Seed 1.6 Flash (64 t/s) and Seed-2.0-Mini (54 t/s) round out the top three.
Seed 1.6 Flash (64 t/s) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Seed-2.0-Mini (54 t/s). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
modelgrep tracks 4 ByteDance Seed models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing. 3 of them qualify for this ranking.