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Seed-OSS 36B Instruct API pricing
$0.84 in, $2.28 out per million tokens.
seed-oss-36b-instructmanaged routeOpenAI SDK
Price · per million tokens, USD
Get a key| Tokens | ByteDance list price | UplinkSwitch | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | — | $0.84 | — |
| Cached input | Billed at the input rate. | ||
| Output | — | $2.28 | — |
No list price on record.
Real-model check: Steady since Oct 20
Seed-OSS 36B Instruct: what it is · from ByteDance’s own model card, read 2026-10-20
ByteDance Seed’s open 36B instruct model, trained natively on contexts up to 512K tokens. It is served as seed-oss-36b-instruct at $0.84 input and $2.28 output per million tokens, on the same key as every other model in the catalog.
| Seed-OSS 36B Instruct | |
|---|---|
| Developer | ByteDance |
| Parameters | 36B, dense |
| Context | 512K tokens natively |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Published | 2025-08-20 |
| Downloads, 30 days to 2026-10-20 | 48,518 |
| Source | ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct |
From ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct, read 2026-10-20.
curl
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"seed-oss-36b-instruct","max_tokens":1024,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'Seed-OSS 36B Instruct next to ByteDance’s other models · per million tokens, live
| Model | Here, in / out | 1,000 chat turns |
|---|---|---|
| Doubao Seed Character | $0.525 / $1.295 | $1.70 |
| Seed-OSS 36B Instruct | $0.84 / $2.28 | $2.82 |
A chat turn is 2,000 input and 500 output tokens. Live from the catalog, ordered by the cost of 1,000 turns.
Worked for Seed-OSS 36B Instruct: 1,000 turns are 2,000,000 input tokens and 500,000 output tokens. At $0.84 input and $2.28 output per million tokens, that is $1.68 + $1.14 = $2.82, paid from prepaid credit with no subscription.
Seed-OSS 36B Instruct API key · base URL and setup
- Create a key in the console at uplinkswitch.ai/console. Credit is prepaid from $10 with no subscription, and the key works at once.
- Point your SDK or tool at https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1, for example with OPENAI_BASE_URL, and send the key as the bearer token.
- Send seed-oss-36b-instruct as the model. The same key calls every other model in the catalog.
Python · OpenAI SDK
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1",
api_key="sk-uplink-live-...",
)
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="seed-oss-36b-instruct",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this in one line."}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)TypeScript · OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from 'openai';
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: 'https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1',
apiKey: 'sk-uplink-live-...',
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: 'seed-oss-36b-instruct',
messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Summarize this in one line.' }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);curl
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"seed-oss-36b-instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'What would it cost? · paste a prompt, priced before you send it
Input is counted at about 4 characters per token.
Cheapest first. A real request is billed on the provider's own token count. Same estimate as JSON: POST https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/estimate, no key needed.
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Seed-OSS 36B Instruct questions
Seed-OSS 36B Instruct is a model from ByteDance. Through UplinkSwitch it answers the OpenAI SDK on one key as seed-oss-36b-instruct.
$0.84 per million input tokens and $2.28 per million output tokens.
It is pay as you go: prepaid credit from $10, with no subscription or monthly fee, billed per token. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token reply costs about $0.002.
seed-oss-36b-instruct. Send it as the model through the OpenAI SDK with base URL https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1.
Create one in the console at uplinkswitch.ai/console: prepaid credit from $10, no subscription, and the key is live at once. The same key calls Seed-OSS 36B Instruct and every other model in the catalog; send it as the bearer token with base URL https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1.
Every day each model gets the same test prompt, and the results are public on /proof. Seed-OSS 36B Instruct's latest result: Steady since Oct 20.
Yes: seed-oss-36b-instruct on the OpenAI format at https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1, $0.84 input and $2.28 output per million tokens. No weights to download and no GPU of your own; the key also runs every other model in the catalog.
36B, dense, per ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct.
512K tokens natively, per ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct.
Its weights are open on Hugging Face (ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct); the license is Apache-2.0.
$0.282 for 100 chat turns of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, at $0.84 input and $2.28 output per million tokens, from prepaid credit with no subscription.