Seed-OSS 36B Instruct vs Teuken 7B Instruct
Seed-OSS 36B Instruct (2025) and Teuken 7B Instruct (2024) are compact production models from ByteDance and OpenGPT-X. Seed-OSS 36B Instruct ships a 4k-token context window, while Teuken 7B 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. It focuses on practical selection signals rather than broad model-family marketing.
Seed-OSS 36B Instruct is safer overall; choose Teuken 7B Instruct when provider fit matters.
Decision scorecard
Local evidence first| Signal | Seed-OSS 36B Instruct | Teuken 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | general production evaluation | general production evaluation |
| Decision fit | General | General |
| Context window | 4k | 4k |
| Cheapest output | - | - |
| Provider routes | 1 tracked | 1 tracked |
| Shared benchmarks | 0 shared | 0 shared |
Decision tradeoffs
- 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.
- Use Teuken 7B 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.
Seed-OSS 36B Instruct
Unavailable
No complete token price in local provider data
Teuken 7B 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
- Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
- Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
Specs
| Specification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2025-06-01 | 2024-10-01 |
| Context window | 4k | 4k |
| Parameters | 36B | 7B |
| Architecture | Decoder Only | Decoder Only |
| License | Proprietary | Open Weights |
| Openness | Proprietary | Open weights |
| Weights | Not released | Unknown |
| Code | Unknown | Unknown |
| Commercial use | Commercial use: conditional | - |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-10 | 2023-09 |
Pricing and availability
| Pricing attribute | Seed-OSS 36B Instruct | Teuken 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | - | - |
| Output price | - | - |
| Providers |
Pricing not yet sourced for either model.
Capabilities
| Capability | Seed-OSS 36B Instruct | Teuken 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Vision | No | No |
| Multimodal | No | No |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| JSON / Tool use | No | No |
| Structured outputs | No | No |
| Code execution | No | No |
| IDE integration | No | No |
| Computer use | No | No |
| Parallel agents | No | No |
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.