Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) 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 Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)Off the frontier
Intelligence
28.40
Total cost
$1218
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 Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)Seed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)28.412.1−57.4% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 57.4% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$1,218.17Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)9.32s85.41s+816.4% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 816.4% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$2.00 / $10.0$0.21 / $0.57
Input modalitiesNot reportedNot reported
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