Best ByteDance Seed Vision Models

Match · Updated July 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

$0.250Input /M

262KContext

Multimodal large language models that accept image input, ranked by intelligence. The best vision language models (VLMs) for understanding images, documents and charts.

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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