Tool-capable chat model for instruction following and agentic application workflows
ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is offered by 3 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 2 of them. Its reference price is $0.21 per 1M input tokens and $0.57 per 1M output tokens. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 12.1 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.30 per 1M, that is roughly 40 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 41 tokens per second, with 2.91s to the first token.
The context window is 262,000 tokens, with an output limit of 262,000 tokens. It supports tool use and structured output.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | Cloud | Free | — | — | 262,000 | 262,000 | deprecated | |
| SiliconFlow ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct | Cloud | $0.21 | $0.57 | — | — | 262,000 | 262,000 | |
| SiliconFlow (China) ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct | Cloud | $0.21 | $0.57 | — | — | 262,000 | 262,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
1 more channels offer $0 (Nvidia); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.