Model comparison
Seed 1.6 vs ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
Compare Seed 1.6 and ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct: input/output $/Mtoken, context window, modalities, and license. OpenRouter-synced pricing.
Bytedance Seed
Seed 1.6
Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.
Bytedance Seed
ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
Tool-capable chat model for instruction following and agentic application workflows
| Metric | Seed 1.6 | ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Bytedance Seed | Bytedance Seed |
| Context window | 262,144 | 262,000 |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.250 | $0.210 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.570 |
| Modalities | vision, text, video | text |
| License | closed | closed |
Quick take
On input price, ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.210/Mtok. For context window, Seed 1.6 leads with 262,144 tokens.
Pick based on your workload: high-volume cheap inference vs long-document / agent loops. Enterprise DNA can wire either model into Omni with evals, secrets, and job orchestration.