doubao · Efficient
Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite
Lower-cost variant in the Doubao Seed 2.0 family for fast general usage. Supports a 256k context window and up to 32k output tokens. ⚠️ Note: This model routes through ByteDance, a Chinese entity - privacy and logging guarantees may be limited.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.15
- Output
- $0.87
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 256K
- Max output
- 32K
Side by side
Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Doubao Seed 2.0 LitedoubaoThis model | MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMaxRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | doubao | MiniMax |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Efficient |
| Added | Feb 14, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 256K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 32K | 524.29KBest |
| Average output | — | 1.4K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.15Best | $0.15 |
| Output | $0.87 | $0.60Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.015 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 128.8 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 4.9 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 99.7% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 42.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Intelligence Index
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite—
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash42.7
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 72.5%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 38.1%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 1,473 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 1,458 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 20.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 79.7%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 16.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 48.0%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 25.8%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 53.4%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Doubao Seed 2.0 Lite: —
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 79.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "doubao-seed-2-0-lite-260215",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="doubao-seed-2-0-lite-260215",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)doubao
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