// ByteDance (Doubao)
Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
A ByteDance (Doubao) model. 1 prices across 1 channels side by side, each with its source and check date – plus specs, licence, speed and benchmarks.
- Official in/out per 1M
- —
- Lowest (SiliconFlow)
- ¥1.5 / ¥4
- Context
- —
- AA index
- 12.1
Prices checked 2026-10-10Official sources linked on every rowNo estimatesCheapest LLM APIs →
01Specs at a glance
Official values first; gaps filled from OpenRouter’s API where the vendor page is silent.
| Vendor | ByteDance (Doubao) |
|---|---|
| Context window | — |
| Max output | — |
| Input | — |
| Output | — |
| Tool calling / JSON | Unknown / Unknown |
| Weights & licence | Open weights · Apache-2.0 · Hugging Face |
| Parameters | 36.2B (from weight files) |
| Released | Aug 20, 2025 |
| Model IDs | ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct |
02Prices on 1 channels
Per 1M tokens, in the currency each source publishes (1 USD = 6.7 CNY for the blended column). Sorted: official first, then cheapest.
| Channel | Source | Input | Output | Cache hit | Blended $ | Context | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SiliconFlow Inference platform (own price page) | Platform 10-10 | ¥1.5 | ¥4 | — | 0.317 | — | SiliconFlow (硅基流动) own pricing page |
“Official” = vendor pricing page; “Platform” = the platform’s own pricing page; “OpenRouter” = price listed on OpenRouter, not checked on the platform’s site. Click a source tag to open the original page.
03Where you can use it
Derived only from the price sources above. Country restrictions are set by each vendor – check their terms before you sign up.
- Inference platform (own price page)
SiliconFlow - Self-host the open weights
GPU / VRAM sizing and build plans→ - Free option
Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct→
04Performance
Speed and AA index from Artificial Analysis public leaderboards (not our own tests); benchmark scores from our benchmark library, best result per benchmark.
- AA indexSeed-OSS-36B-Instruct
- 12.1
- Output speed (median)
- 40 tok/s
- Time to first token
- 2.84s
- AA index per $ (blended)
- 38.15
| Benchmark | Best score | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 71.5% | independent | 2026-08-30 |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.7% | vendor | 2026-03-11 |
| AIME (OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025) | 67.5% | independent | 2026-08-28 |
05Price changes we recorded
All price changes →From our daily re-checks of the sources above.
No price change recorded since we started tracking (2026-10-10).
06More from ByteDance (Doubao)
FAQ
How much does the Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct API cost?
There is no official pay-as-you-go price in our data. The lowest listed price is ¥1.5 / ¥4 on SiliconFlow.
What is the context window of Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct?
— tokens of context. Platforms may cap it lower – see the table.
Is Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct open source?
Yes, the weights are published on Hugging Face (ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct). Licence: Apache-2.0.