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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Seed OSS 36B Instruct

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.6 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Supports vision
  • Has reasoning mode

Seed OSS 36B Instruct wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Better at math
Price Advantage
Seed OSS 36B Instruct
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6
Speed
Claude Opus 4.6

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.6Seed OSS 36B Instruct
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.6Seed OSS 36B Instruct
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicBytedance-seed
ReleasedFeb 2026Unknown

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Seed OSS 36B Instruct Modalities

Input
Output

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Frequently Asked Questions

Seed OSS 36B Instruct has cheaper input pricing at $0.90/M tokens. Seed OSS 36B Instruct has cheaper output pricing at $0.90/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 47.6, compared to Seed OSS 36B Instruct's score of 16.7.
Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window, while Seed OSS 36B Instruct has a 262,000 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision. Seed OSS 36B Instruct does not support vision.

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