Claude Opus 4.8 (Max) vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

Claude Opus 4.8 (Max) vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct. A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.8 (Max)Off the frontier
Intelligence
41.80
Total cost
$6874
ByteDance SeedSeed-OSS-36B-InstructNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
12.10
Total cost
-
Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricClaude Opus 4.8 (Max)Seed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)41.812.1−71.1% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 71.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$6,873.86Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)36.91s67.17s+82.0% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 82.0% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$5.00 / $25.0$0.21 / $0.57
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