Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
AI model by ByteDance Seed. Real-time pricing and benchmark data.
Benchmarks
Editorial Analysis
Profile. Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is a budget-tier option from ByteDance Seed at $0.57/M output tokens. Despite the low price, it scores competitively on measurable benchmarks — making it a candidate for high-volume production workloads where unit cost dominates.
Latency. On latency, Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct reports 36 tok/s output speed and 2940ms time-to-first-token. Output speed is on the slower end; for real-time chat consider pairing with a streaming front-end or routing latency-sensitive requests to a faster model.
Cost model. For a workload of 1M input tokens + 100K output tokens, Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct costs $0.27 per million input-equivalent requests. Multiply by your monthly request volume to project the bill, and compare against the speed/correctness profile above to decide if the trade-off is worth it for your workload.
Editorial summary generated from public pricing and benchmark data (Artificial Analysis API). All numbers are sourced — see the Artificial Analysis methodology for benchmark definitions. Last refreshed 2026-10-08.
Compare with similar models
| Model | Input | Output | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
Seed-OSS-36B-InstructCurrent | $0.21 | $0.57 | 36 tok/s |
| Ring-flash-2.0 | $0.14 | $0.57 | — |
| Ling-flash-2.0 | $0.14 | $0.57 | 7 tok/s |
| Llama 3.1 Instruct 70B | $0.56 | $0.56 | 70 tok/s |
| Hy3 | $0.14 | $0.58 | 91 tok/s |
| gpt-oss-120b (high) | $0.15 | $0.59 | 230 tok/s |