Claude Opus 5 (Max) vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

Claude Opus 5 (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 5 (Max)Off the frontier
Intelligence
50.80
Total cost
$7275
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 (Max)Seed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)50.812.1−76.2% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 76.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$7,274.74Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)59.61s67.17s+12.7% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 12.7% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$5.00 / $25.0$0.21 / $0.57
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
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