Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite
efficientByteDance•Released on 2026-02-14
ByteDance's balanced production model, optimizing for performance-cost tradeoff. MMLU-Pro 87.7 actually exceeds Pro variant. Near Pro-level Agent capabilities (WideSearch 74.5 vs 74.7). Ideal for enterprise chatbots, document processing, and general workloads at 80% lower cost than Pro.
Voice of the community
sample 1,120“Lite is the default choice for most deployments. It's 80% cheaper than Pro and the performance gap is minimal for production workloads.”
“The gap between Pro and Lite on BrowseComp and WideSearch is minimal. Lite is nearly at flagship levels for autonomous searching and information integration.”
“For enterprise general tasks - daily code development, document processing, data analysis - Lite is the sweet spot. SWE-Bench 73.5 is solid.”
Core Specs
Scenario Scores
Pros & Cons
Pros
- +Best performance-cost ratio in the family
- +MMLU-Pro 87.7 exceeds Pro variant
- +Near Pro-level Agent capabilities (WideSearch 74.5)
- +Strong video understanding (VideoMME 87.7)
- +80% cheaper than Pro, ~20x cheaper than Claude
- +Production-ready for enterprise workloads
Cons
- −Math reasoning gap vs Pro (AIME 93 vs 98.3)
- −Coding competitions lower (Codeforces 2233 vs 3020)
- −Same hallucination limitations as Pro
- −English optimization secondary to Chinese
- −Requires Volcengine account for direct access