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ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct vs Claude Opus 4.8

Compare ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct from ByteDance and Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
ByteDance · text, image → text

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.

Input$0.2 /M
Output$0.534 /M
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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
Claude Opus 4.8
Input /M
$0.2
$5
Output /M
$0.534
$25
Cache read /M
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$0.5
Context length
256,000
1,000,000
Max output
32,000
128,000
Time to First Token
0.6 s
1.1 s
Throughput
27.0 tok/s
82.6 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagepdf
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
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May 28, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Performance Past 3 Days

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Throughput (tok/s)

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
$20.01 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct, Claude Opus 4.8?

ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct: $0.534/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct accepts 256,000 and Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct and 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct at 27.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct and Claude Opus 4.8 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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