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Seed-OSS 7B on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Seed-OSS 7B scores 65.3 on IFEval, placing it #529 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
65.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#529
of 600
Percentile
12th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
30.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Seed-OSS 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Seed-OSS 7B sits at #529 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 30.8 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Seed-OSS 7B below the midpoint.

ByteDance models average 79.8 on this benchmark. Seed-OSS 7B is 14.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average ByteDance model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 64.9. Seed-OSS 7B is 0.4 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 65.3 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $0.85 per million input tokens, Seed-OSS 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Mixtral Groq 7B Groq 4096 $0.70 53.4
Yi-Lightning 7B 01.AI 32768 $1.00 55.9
Gemma 3 7B Google DeepMind 32768 $0.90 55.9
GLM-4.5 1.5B Zhipu AI 16384 $0.65 53.3
Seed-OSS 7B ByteDance 8192 $0.85 55.5
Llama 3 Novita 8B Novita AI 16384 $0.99 55.5
Mixtral Groq 8B Groq 32768 $0.77 54.8

Other benchmarks for Seed-OSS 7B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 61.1 512 15th
GPQA Diamond 51.7 504 16th
SWE-bench Verified 43.6 484 19th
HumanEval 59.9 506 16th
MATH-500 54.4 525 13th
AIME 2025 43.1 522 13th
LiveCodeBench 44.8 501 17th
TruthfulQA 61.9 508 15th
HellaSwag 72.4 489 19th
MMMU 51.8 534 11th
Arena Elo 1239.5 515 14th

FAQ

What score does Seed-OSS 7B get on IFEval?

Seed-OSS 7B scores 65.3 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Seed-OSS 7B rank on IFEval?

It ranks #529 of 600 models, in the 12th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Seed-OSS 7B good at IFEval?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Seed-OSS 7B cost?

Seed-OSS 7B costs $0.85 per million input tokens and $3.81 per million output tokens.

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