What are the hardware requirements for Seed Coder 8B Instruct?

Seed Coder 8B Instruct requires approximately 16.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Seed Coder 8B Instruct and how large is it?

Seed Coder 8B Instruct is developed by ByteDance-Seed, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Seed Coder 8B Instruct?

Seed Coder 8B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Seed Coder 8B Instruct by ByteDance-Seed — VRAM 16.5GB, 32K context

Name: Seed Coder 8B Instruct
Author: ByteDance-Seed

Seed Coder 8B Instruct is an open-source language model by ByteDance-Seed. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.5GB, Context: 32K, License: mit, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Arxiv:2506.03524 Base model:bytedance-seed/seed... Base model:finetune:bytedance-... Codegen Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct

Seed Coder 8B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Seed Coder 8B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Seed Coder 8B Base ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Base
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.5 GB
Updated	2026-09-18
Maintainer	ByteDance-Seed
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 1.6 GB: 4-of-4
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.46.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<[PAD▁TOKEN]>
Vocabulary Size	155136
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Seed Coder 8B Instruct

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Seed Coder 8B Instruct GGUF	12	1718	2 GB
...r 8B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit	1	67	6 GB
...eed Coder 8B Instruct Bnb 4bit	2	4	6 GB

Best Alternatives to Seed Coder 8B Instruct

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Seed Coder 8B Instruct V1	32K / 32.9 GB	43	2
Seed Coder 8B Instruct	32K / 16.5 GB	25	1
Wasm Coder 8B Instruct V1	32K / 32.9 GB	5	3
Athena Llama Coder 3 8B	32K / 16.1 GB	15	1
...plete Coder Instruct 8B Merged	8K / 16.1 GB	7703	2
Rombos Replete Coder Llama3 8B	8K / 16.1 GB	8040	3
...plete Coder Instruct 8B Merged	8K / 16.1 GB	43	4
Replete Coder Llama3 8B	8K / 16.1 GB	289	34
...ind V1 Llama3 Code 8B Instruct	8K / 16.1 GB	3	1
...r 8B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit	32K / 6.5 GB	67	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct.