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Qwen3 235B A22B vs Seed Oss 36B Instruct

Alibaba · released

Wins 1 of 6 areas

Facts

ByteDance · released

Wins 3 of 6 areas

Agents · Long documents · Following instructions

Seed Oss 36B Instruct wins more areas, narrowly.Qwen3 235B A22B is better at facts.

Scores updated · 26 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the six areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.

Agents, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.

What it costs

Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.

Qwen3 235B A22B$0.70 to read · $2.80 to write$3.50Price from Alibaba's own price page
Seed Oss 36B Instruct$0.21 to read · $0.57 to write$0.78Price from Artificial Analysis

Seed Oss 36B Instruct costs 78% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.

Where Seed Oss 36B Instruct pulls ahead

  • Recent programming contest problemsLiveCodeBench v6+30.4points aheadSeed Oss 36B Instruct67.4Qwen3 235B A22B37
  • Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+3.2points aheadSeed Oss 36B Instruct41.9Qwen3 235B A22B38.7
  • Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+2.6points aheadSeed Oss 36B Instruct72.6Qwen3 235B A22B70

Where Qwen3 235B A22B pulls ahead

  • Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+8.8points aheadQwen3 235B A22B22.4Seed Oss 36B Instruct13.6
  • Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+3.4points aheadQwen3 235B A22B39.9Seed Oss 36B Instruct36.5
  • Very hard expert questions across many subjectsHumanity's Last Exam+1.1points aheadQwen3 235B A22B11Seed Oss 36B Instruct9.9

Every test, side by side

All 26 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingEven

Full coding ranking

AgentsSeed Oss 36B Instruct
  • GDPValSeed Oss 36B Instruct by 1.111.812.9+1.1

Full agents ranking

ReasoningEven

Full reasoning ranking

FactsQwen3 235B A22B

Full facts ranking

Long documentsSeed Oss 36B Instruct
  • AA-LCRSeed Oss 36B Instruct by 61.3061.3+61.3

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsSeed Oss 36B Instruct
  • IFBenchSeed Oss 36B Instruct by 3.238.741.9+3.2

Full following instructions ranking

Other results15 tests, not counted

Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Qwen3 235B A22B or Seed Oss 36B Instruct?

Seed Oss 36B Instruct wins three of the six areas where both have results: agents, long documents and following instructions. Qwen3 235B A22B wins facts. They are level on coding and reasoning.

Which is better for coding?

Neither. They win 1 coding test each of the 3 both models report, and 1 is a tie.

Which is cheaper?

Qwen3 235B A22B costs $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Seed Oss 36B Instruct costs $0.21 and $0.57. That makes Seed Oss 36B Instruct about 78% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 26 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 11 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 15 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.