---
title: "Seed-OSS 36B Instruct API pricing"
canonical: https://uplinkswitch.ai/models/seed-oss-36b-instruct
generated: 2026-10-25T13:50:33.914Z
source: https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/catalog
base_url: https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1
---

# Seed-OSS 36B Instruct API pricing

Seed-OSS 36B Instruct API at $0.84/M input and $2.28/M output tokens. Works with the OpenAI SDK.

## Price per million tokens (USD)

| Tokens | ByteDance list price | UplinkSwitch | Under list |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Input | — | $0.84 | — |
| Cached input | — | billed at the input rate | — |
| Output | — | $2.28 | — |

## Model

- Model id: `seed-oss-36b-instruct`
- Formats: OpenAI SDK
- Base URL: https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1
- Daily real-model check: Steady since Oct 20 (https://uplinkswitch.ai/proof#seed-oss-36b-instruct)

## Seed-OSS 36B Instruct API key

1. Create a key in the console at uplinkswitch.ai/console. Credit is prepaid from $10 with no subscription, and the key works at once.
2. 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.
3. Send seed-oss-36b-instruct as the model. The same key calls every other model in the catalog.

## Request

### Python · OpenAI SDK

```python
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

```typescript
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

```bash
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"}]}'
```

## Questions

### What is Seed-OSS 36B Instruct?

Seed-OSS 36B Instruct is a model from ByteDance. Through UplinkSwitch it answers the OpenAI SDK on one key as seed-oss-36b-instruct.

### How much does the Seed-OSS 36B Instruct API cost?

$0.84 per million input tokens and $2.28 per million output tokens.

### Is Seed-OSS 36B Instruct free?

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.

### What is the Seed-OSS 36B Instruct model id?

seed-oss-36b-instruct. Send it as the model through the OpenAI SDK with base URL https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1.

### How do I get a Seed-OSS 36B Instruct API key?

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.

### Is it the real Seed-OSS 36B Instruct?

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.

### Is there a Seed-OSS 36B Instruct API?

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.

### How many parameters does Seed-OSS 36B Instruct have?

36B, dense, per ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct.

### What is Seed-OSS 36B Instruct's context window?

512K tokens natively, per ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct.

### Is Seed-OSS 36B Instruct open source?

Its weights are open on Hugging Face (ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct); the license is Apache-2.0.

### What does Seed-OSS 36B Instruct cost per 100 messages?

$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.

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