GPT-5 mini (High) vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

GPT-5 mini (High) 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 mini (High)Off the frontier
Intelligence
16.80
Total cost
$189
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 mini (High)Seed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)16.812.1−28.0% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 28.0% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$188.66Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)58.72s65.70s+11.9% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 11.9% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.25 / $2.00$0.21 / $0.57
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
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