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

Seed-OSS scores 76.9 on HumanEval, placing it #309 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
76.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#309
of 600
Percentile
49th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
19.9
points

Score distribution

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

GPT-5.2 Pro 96.8
Gemini 3 Pro Pro 95.0
o4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 93.8
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
GPT-5.2 Max 93.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 93.4
Grok 4 Max 93.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 93.2
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 92.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Gemini 3 Pro Pro Google DeepMind 200000 $19.80 87.3
3 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
4 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
5 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
8 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
9 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
10 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3

What this score means

On HumanEval, Seed-OSS sits at #309 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 19.9 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Seed-OSS below the midpoint.

ByteDance models average 75.5 on this benchmark. Seed-OSS is 1.4 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average ByteDance model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 82.2. Seed-OSS is 5.3 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 76.9 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 $3.74 per million input tokens, Seed-OSS is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HumanEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
OLMo 2 Allen Institute for AI 65536 $2.99 71.0
Firefunction Reasoning Fireworks AI 8192 $9.08 72.5
Yi-Large Instruct 01.AI 32768 $3.48 73.4
QwQ Base Alibaba Cloud 65536 $3.68 74.1
Seed-OSS ByteDance 32768 $3.74 75.3
Llama 3 Baseten Chat Baseten 200000 $3.55 73.2
Nemotron 4 Base NVIDIA 8192 $3.29 73.0

Other benchmarks for Seed-OSS

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 79.6 193 68th
GPQA Diamond 72.6 209 65th
SWE-bench Verified 62.8 260 57th
MATH-500 79.2 230 62th
AIME 2025 74.2 176 71th
LiveCodeBench 67.6 237 61th
IFEval 81.6 285 53th
TruthfulQA 77.1 279 54th
HellaSwag 83.5 307 49th
MMMU 73.5 206 66th
Arena Elo 1376.3 287 52th

FAQ

What score does Seed-OSS get on HumanEval?

Seed-OSS scores 76.9 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does Seed-OSS rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #309 of 600 models, in the 49th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is Seed-OSS good at HumanEval?

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 HumanEval score calculated?

HumanEval 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 cost?

Seed-OSS costs $3.74 per million input tokens and $19.36 per million output tokens.

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