Seed-OSS is a series of open-source large language models developed by ByteDance's Seed team, designed specifically for powerful long-context processing, reasoning, agents, and general capabilities. Among this series, Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is an instruction-tuned model with 36 billion parameters that natively supports ultra-long context lengths, enabling it to process massive documents or complex codebases in a single pass. This model is specially optimized for reasoning, code generation, and agent tasks (such as tool usage), while maintaining balanced and excellent general capabilities. A notable feature of this model is the "Thinking Budget" functionality, which allows users to flexibly adjust the inference length as needed, thereby effectively improving inference efficiency in practical applications.
ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct vs Doubao 1.5 Pro 256K
Compare ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct from ByteDance and Doubao 1.5 Pro 256K from ByteDance on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Doubao-1.5-pro-256k, a fully upgraded version based on Doubao-1.5-Pro, delivers an overall performance improvement of 10%. It supports inference with a 256k context window and an output length of up to 12k tokens. With higher performance, larger window size, and exceptional cost-effectiveness, it is suitable for a wider range of application scenarios.
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Which is cheaper: ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct, Doubao 1.5 Pro 256K?
ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct: $0.534/M output tokens; Doubao 1.5 Pro 256K: $1.44/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
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