Seed OSS 36B Instruct

ByteDance chatreasoning Free

API ID: bytedance/seed-oss-36b-instruct

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Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Seed OSS 36B Instruct

Seed is ByteDance's language model series, developed by the team behind TikTok and Douyin. The models deliver strong performance on general language tasks with particular strength in content generation and creative applications. Seed features efficient architecture suitable for high-volume deployment. The series includes flash variants optimized for speed. For applications requiring capable AI from a leading Chinese tech company, Seed offers reliable performance with content-focused strengths.

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#1 lowest price among 599 Chat models — Top 20% cheapest!

Model Specifications

Context Length
131k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2025-09-02
Capabilities
chat reasoning
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)
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ByteDance Model Lineup

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Model Input Output Context Capabilities
Seed OSS 36B Instruct Current Free Free 131k chat reasoning
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Seed 1.6 Flash $0.07 $0.30 262k chat vision video
UI-TARS 7B $0.10 $0.20 128k chat vision reasoning
Seed 1.6 $0.25 $2.00 262k chat vision video
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Seed OSS 36B Instruct API

OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance/seed-oss-36b-instruct",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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