Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) 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 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)On the frontier
Intelligence
53.60
Total cost
$2172
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 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)Seed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)53.612.1−77.4% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 77.4% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$2,172.43Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)33.81s65.70s+94.3% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 94.3% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$4.00 / $20.0$0.21 / $0.57
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