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Seed-OSS Instruct on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

Seed-OSS Instruct scores 65.4 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #287 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Score
65.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#287
of 600
Percentile
52th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
19.7
points

Score distribution

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
2 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
6 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
7 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
8 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On LiveCodeBench, Seed-OSS Instruct sits at #287 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 19.7 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Seed-OSS Instruct above the midpoint.

ByteDance models average 62.5 on this benchmark. Seed-OSS Instruct is 2.9 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average ByteDance model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 70.3. Seed-OSS Instruct is 4.9 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 65.4 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 $3.79 per million input tokens, Seed-OSS Instruct is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Seed-OSS Base ByteDance 16384 $3.14 72.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro Mini Google DeepMind 128000 $10.07 74.2
Gemma 3 Google DeepMind 65536 $3.68 73.6
Nova Lite Max Amazon 200000 $9.79 73.4
Seed-OSS Instruct ByteDance 128000 $3.79 76.0
Arctic Instruct Snowflake 65536 $2.83 70.6
Doubao 1.5 Pro Mini ByteDance 32768 $8.30 72.3

Other benchmarks for Seed-OSS Instruct

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 78.5 226 62th
GPQA Diamond 72.3 215 64th
SWE-bench Verified 63.3 249 59th
HumanEval 80.2 228 62th
MATH-500 81.2 187 69th
AIME 2025 71.2 233 61th
IFEval 82.8 252 58th
TruthfulQA 79.3 207 66th
HellaSwag 87.2 169 72th
MMMU 74.5 170 72th
Arena Elo 1400.9 206 66th

FAQ

What score does Seed-OSS Instruct get on LiveCodeBench?

Seed-OSS Instruct scores 65.4 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Seed-OSS Instruct rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #287 of 600 models, in the 52nd percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Seed-OSS Instruct good at LiveCodeBench?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the LiveCodeBench score calculated?

LiveCodeBench 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 Instruct cost?

Seed-OSS Instruct costs $3.79 per million input tokens and $20.28 per million output tokens.

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