LLM Reference

Seed-Coder Models by ByteDance

ByteDanceMITOpen source
3 models2025Up to 66k ctx

Last refreshed 2026-06-21. Next refresh: weekly.

Details

ResearcherByteDance
LicenseMITOSI-approved
Commercial useCommercial use: permitted
Models3
Released2025
Max context66k

Capabilities

Reasoning1 of 3 models

About

Seed-Coder is a family of lightweight open-source code LLMs developed by ByteDance Seed, comprising base, instruct, and reasoning models trained on 6 trillion code-centric tokens using a model-centric data curation approach. Previously known internally as Doubao-Coder. All models are 8B parameters and available under MIT license on Hugging Face.

Decision facts

Best fit
codereasoningcoding
Capability starting point
Seed-Coder 8B Reasoning with 66k context and reasoning
Lowest tracked input
Not tracked
Closest related family
BAGEL

Current Variants

Use-when guidance is based on each model's tracked capabilities, context window, release date, and replacement status.

3 in view

Use when the workload needs code, 33k context, and 8B parameters.

2025-05code33k context8B parameters

Use when the workload needs code, 33k context, and 8B parameters.

2025-05code33k context8B parameters

Use when the workload needs code, 66k context, and 8B parameters.

2025-05code66k context8B parameters

Release Timeline

1 release group
2025-05
3 current
Seed-Coder 8B Base
code33k context8B parameters
Current
Seed-Coder 8B Instruct
code33k context8B parameters
Current
Seed-Coder 8B Reasoning
code66k context8B parameters
Current

Specifications(3 models)

Seed-Coder model specifications comparison
ModelReleasedContextParametersReasoning
Seed-Coder 8B Base2025-0533k8BNo
Seed-Coder 8B Instruct2025-0533k8BNo
Seed-Coder 8B Reasoning2025-0566k8BYes