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ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct vs DeepSeek V4 Flash

Compare ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct from ByteDance and DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek 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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DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · text → text

(This model currently points to the older 0423 version; if you need to request the latest version, you can choose the model deepseek-v4-flash-0731)DeepSeek-V4 features an ultra-long context of one million characters and achieves leading performance domestically and in the open-source domain in agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning.

Input$0.142 /M
Output$0.284 /M
Cache read$0.0284 /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
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Input /M
$0.2
$0.142
Output /M
$0.534
$0.284
Cache read /M
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$0.0284
Context length
256,000
1,000,000
Max output
32,000
384,000
Time to First Token
0.6 s
1.0 s
Throughput
27.0 tok/s
66.5 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsthinking
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
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April 24, 2026

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Performance Past 3 Days

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Cost calculator

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

DeepSeek V4 Flash
$12.78 /mo
ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
$20.01 /mo

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FAQ

Which is cheaper: ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct, DeepSeek V4 Flash?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.284/M output tokens; ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct: $0.534/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 DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct and 384,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash.

Which one generates tokens faster?

DeepSeek V4 Flash at 66.5 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; DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking.

Can I call ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct and DeepSeek V4 Flash 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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