GPT-5.5 (Medium) vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

GPT-5.5 (Medium) 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.

OpenAIGPT-5.5 (Medium)Off the frontier
Intelligence
33.80
Total cost
$2095
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.

MetricGPT-5.5 (Medium)Seed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)33.812.1−64.2% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 64.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$2,095.12Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)11.17s67.17s+501.3% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 501.3% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$5.00 / $30.0$0.21 / $0.57
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
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