GPT-5.6 Terra (Medium) vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

GPT-5.6 Terra (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-5.6 Terra (Medium)Off the frontier
Intelligence
30.10
Total cost
$447
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-5.6 Terra (Medium)Seed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)30.112.1−59.8% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 59.8% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$446.53Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)6.06s66.49s+997.2% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 997.2% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$2.00 / $12.0$0.21 / $0.57
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
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