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Best ByteDance Seed Vision Models

Quick answer · Updated June 2026

Seed-2.0-Lite is the best vision-capable ByteDance Seed model, pairing — intelligence with image and document understanding. Seed-2.0-Mini (—) and Seed 1.6 Flash (—) round out the top three.

Intelligence
73 t/sSpeed
$0.250Input /M
262KContext

Multimodal large language models that accept image input, ranked by intelligence. The best vision-capable AI models for understanding images, documents and charts.

  1. 1B
    seed-2.0-lite
    ReasoningToolsJSON+1$0.250/M · 73 t/s · 1.2s ttft
    Intelligence
  2. 2B
    seed-2.0-mini
    ReasoningToolsJSON+1$0.100/M · 54 t/s · 459ms ttft
    Intelligence
  3. 3B
    seed-1.6-flash
    ReasoningToolsJSON+1$0.075/M · 64 t/s · 898ms ttft
    Intelligence
  4. 4B
    seed-1.6
    ReasoningToolsJSON+1$0.250/M · 28 t/s · 745ms ttft
    Intelligence

Frequently asked

What is the best ByteDance Seed model for vision?

Seed-2.0-Lite is the best vision-capable ByteDance Seed model, pairing — intelligence with image and document understanding. Seed-2.0-Mini (—) and Seed 1.6 Flash (—) round out the top three.

What's a good alternative to Seed-2.0-Lite?

Seed-2.0-Mini (—) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Seed 1.6 Flash (—). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.

How many ByteDance Seed models are there?

modelgrep tracks 4 ByteDance Seed models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing. 4 of them qualify for this ranking.

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