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Seed-OSS 8B on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means

Seed-OSS 8B scores 40.6 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #516 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
40.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#516
of 600
Percentile
14th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
41.1
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with Seed-OSS 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 81.7
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 81.1
GPT-5.2 Max 80.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 80.2
GPT-5.2 80.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 80.1
o4 Max 79.8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 79.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 79.5
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 79.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
3 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2

What this score means

On SWE-bench Verified, Seed-OSS 8B sits at #516 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 41.1 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts Seed-OSS 8B below the midpoint.

ByteDance models average 59.5 on this benchmark. Seed-OSS 8B is 18.9 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average ByteDance model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 39.0. Seed-OSS 8B is 1.6 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 40.6 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 $1.05 per million input tokens, Seed-OSS 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on SWE-bench Verified. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Nemotron 4 8B NVIDIA 4096 $1.06 57.9
Llama 3 Modal 7B Modal 4096 $0.88 55.2
Mistral Small 3 8B Mistral AI 8192 $0.99 57.2
Llama 3 Hyperbolic 7B Hyperbolic 4096 $0.94 55.6
Seed-OSS 8B ByteDance 8192 $1.05 57.1
Llama 4 Maverick 1.5B Meta AI 8192 $0.93 55.2
Yi-Large 8B 01.AI 32768 $0.88 56.1

Other benchmarks for Seed-OSS 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 64.3 464 23th
GPQA Diamond 54.5 473 21th
HumanEval 61.3 480 20th
MATH-500 58.6 483 20th
AIME 2025 43.4 519 14th
LiveCodeBench 46.0 487 19th
IFEval 69.3 471 22th
TruthfulQA 62.3 499 17th
HellaSwag 70.9 524 13th
MMMU 56.6 479 20th
Arena Elo 1267.1 465 23th

FAQ

What score does Seed-OSS 8B get on SWE-bench Verified?

Seed-OSS 8B scores 40.6 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does Seed-OSS 8B rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #516 of 600 models, in the 14th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is Seed-OSS 8B good at SWE-bench Verified?

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 SWE-bench Verified score calculated?

SWE-bench Verified is a coding 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 8B cost?

Seed-OSS 8B costs $1.05 per million input tokens and $5.47 per million output tokens.

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