Seed OSS 36B Instruct

ByteDance chatreasoning Free

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

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

About Seed OSS 36B Instruct

Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is a 36B-parameter instruction-tuned reasoning language model from ByteDance’s Seed team, released under Apache-2.0. The model is optimized for general instruction following with strong performance in reasoning, mathematics, coding, tool use/agentic workflows, and multilingual tasks, and is intended for international (i18n) use cases. It is not currently possible to control the reasoning effort.

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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

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