Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) 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.

MistralMistral Small 4 (Reasoning)On the open-weights frontier
Intelligence
11.30
Total cost
$42.5
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.

MetricMistral Small 4 (Reasoning)Seed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)11.312.1+7.1% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 7.1% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$42.50Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)14.50s65.70s+353.1% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 353.1% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.15 / $0.60$0.21 / $0.57
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
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