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ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct from ByteDance and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen 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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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /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
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.2
$1.69
Output /M
$0.534
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
256,000
1,000,000
Max output
32,000
131,072
Time to First Token
0.6 s
12.5 s
Throughput
27.0 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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August 3, 2026

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Performance Past 3 Days

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Cost calculator

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ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
$20.01 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct, Qwen3.8 Max?

ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct: $0.534/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/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 Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 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; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct and Qwen3.8 Max 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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