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Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 vs Seed-OSS 36B Instruct

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (2025) and Seed-OSS 36B Instruct (2025) are compact production models from NVIDIA AI and ByteDance. Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 ships a 128k-token context window, while Seed-OSS 36B Instruct ships a 4k-token context window. This comparison covers specs, pricing, API access, capabilities, benchmarks, input and output token costs, and production fit for coding and agent workloads.

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 fits 32x more tokens; pick it for long-context work and Seed-OSS 36B Instruct for tighter calls.

Decision scorecard

Local evidence first
SignalLlama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1Seed-OSS 36B Instruct
Best forgeneral production evaluationgeneral production evaluation
Decision fitLong contextGeneral
Context window128k4k
Cheapest output--
Provider routes1 tracked1 tracked
Shared benchmarks0 shared0 shared

Decision tradeoffs

Choose Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 when...
  • Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 has the larger context window for long prompts, retrieval packs, or transcript analysis.
  • Local decision data tags Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 for Long context.
Choose Seed-OSS 36B Instruct when...
  • Use Seed-OSS 36B Instruct when your own prompt tests beat the comparison signals; the local data does not show a decisive standalone advantage yet.

Monthly cost at traffic

Estimate token spend from the cheapest tracked input and output route or tier on this page.

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Unavailable

No complete token price in local provider data

Seed-OSS 36B Instruct

Unavailable

No complete token price in local provider data

Cost delta unavailable until both models have sourced input and output token prices.

Switch friction

Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 -> Seed-OSS 36B Instruct
  • Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
Seed-OSS 36B Instruct -> Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1
  • Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.

Specs

Specification
Released2025-06-012025-06-01
Context window128k4k
Parameters49B36B
ArchitectureDecoder OnlyDecoder Only
LicenseNVIDIA Open ModelProprietary
OpennessOpen weightsProprietary
WeightsUnknownNot released
CodeUnknownUnknown
Commercial useCommercial use: permittedCommercial use: conditional
Knowledge cutoff-2024-10

Pricing and availability

Pricing attributeLlama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1Seed-OSS 36B Instruct
Input price--
Output price--
Providers

Pricing not yet sourced for either model.

Capabilities

CapabilityLlama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1Seed-OSS 36B Instruct
VisionNoNo
MultimodalNoNo
ReasoningNoNo
JSON / Tool useNoNo
Structured outputsNoNo
Code executionNoNo
IDE integrationNoNo
Computer useNoNo
Parallel agentsNoNo

Benchmarks

No shared benchmark scores are currently available for this pair.

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Last reviewed: 2026-07-10. Data sourced from public model cards and provider documentation.