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 Seed 1.6 Lite
Compare ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct from ByteDance and Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite 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-Seed-1.6-lite is a brand new multimodal deep reasoning model that supports adjustable reasoning effort, with four modes: Minimal, Low, Medium, and High. It offers better cost performance, making it the best choice for common tasks, with a context window of up to 256k.
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct, Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite?
ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct: $0.534/M output tokens; Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite: $0.656/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 Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct and 32,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite at 56.0 tok/s and ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct at 33.7 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 function calling and structured outputs; Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite accepts text, image and video input and supports function calling and structured outputs.
Can I call ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct and Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite 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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