Dola Seed 2.0 Lite is a ByteDance Seed model in the Seed 2.0 lineup and is presented as the Lite option in that family.
ByteDance describes Seed 2.0 as offering three general-purpose Agent models—Pro, Lite, and Mini—plus a dedicated Code model.
| Developer | ByteDance |
|---|---|
| Model ID | bytedance/dola-seed-2-0-lite |
| Release Date | April 23, 2026 |
| Context Window | 256,000 tokens (~256K) |
| Max Output Tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Modalities | Image, Text, Video → Text |
| Capabilities | parallel tool calls, reasoning, streaming, structured (JSON schema) output, tool/function calling, vision |
Model family position
Seed 2.0 Lite is part of ByteDance’s Seed 2.0 series and is listed as the Lite-tier general-purpose model.
Enterprise availability
The model is shown as available through Merge’s model directory for ByteDance/BytePlus-related access paths.
Provider-listed identifier
Merge documents the model under the exact identifier bytedance/dola-seed-2-0-lite.
Hosting/platform references
The model appears in documentation from AI/ML API, Puter, Synthorai, and Merge under closely related Seed 2.0 Lite naming.
General-purpose agent workloads
ByteDance positions Seed 2.0 Lite within its general-purpose Agent model lineup.
Cost-conscious deployment
Merge describes Lite as sitting in the middle tier of the Seed 2.0 lineup, intended as a lower-cost option than Pro.
Multimodal enterprise workflows
Third-party documentation describes the model as supporting multimodal inputs for text, image, and video use cases.
Seed 2.0 Pro
ByteDance lists Pro as a higher-tier general-purpose Agent model in the same Seed 2.0 lineup.
Seed 2.0 Mini
ByteDance lists Mini as another general-purpose Agent model in the same Seed 2.0 lineup.
Sources: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seed2 · https://docs.merge.dev/merge-gateway/models/details/bytedance-dola-seed-2-0-lite · https://docs.aimlapi.com/api-references/text-models-llm/bytedance/dola-seed-2.0-lite
Measured on the AI/ML API gateway across live traffic. Figures are medians unless stated. Last updated 2026-10-12.
Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite is documented for **cross-border meeting minutes**, using multilingual speech recognition and translation to produce bilingual minutes from multilingual meetings.
It is also documented for **customer service quality assurance**, where emotion recognition, ambient sound detection, and long-form audio analysis help flag anger, interruptions, or overtime.
Another documented use case is **video content moderation**, combining audio-video inference and long-sequence tracking to detect dangerous visuals and suspicious sounds at the same time.
It is further documented for **desktop agent automation**, using GUI understanding and tool calling to complete complex cross-application workflows.
import requests r = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}, json={ "model": "bytedance/dola-seed-2-0-lite", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }, ) print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "bytedance/dola-seed-2-0-lite", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }), }); console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"bytedance/dola-seed-2-0-lite","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
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Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite has a documented free trial for new accounts: 10 trial calls and up to $1 in free credit with no card required.
| Benchmark | Score | What it measures | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIME 2025 | 93.0 | Competition mathematics (AIME), 2025 | Source | September 22, 2026 |
| GPQA Diamond | 85.1 | Google-proof graduate science questions (hardest subset) | Source | September 22, 2026 |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.7 | Multi-discipline knowledge + reasoning (harder MMLU) | Source | September 22, 2026 |
| LiveCodeBench | 81.7 | Contamination-free competitive programming problems | Source | September 22, 2026 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5 | Resolving verified real GitHub issues | Source | September 22, 2026 |
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Best for |
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Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite This page | Agentic workflows and structured output | |||
| Reasoning + agents | ||||
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| Reasoning + agents |
Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite has a 256,000 tokens context window and can return up to 128,000 tokens.
Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite takes image, text, video as input and returns text.
Use bytedance/dola-seed-2-0-lite as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite became available on April 24, 2026.
Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite is priced at input $0.325 / 1M tokens, output $2.6 / 1M tokens, cached input $0.065 / 1M tokens.
Yes, Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite accepts image input alongside text.
Dola-Seed 2.0 Lite was built by ByteDance.
Requests are sent to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
