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

Seed Coder 8B Reasoning requires approximately 32.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

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

Seed Coder 8B Reasoning 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 Reasoning?

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

Seed Coder 8B Reasoning by ByteDance-Seed — VRAM 32.9GB, 64K context

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

Seed Coder 8B Reasoning is an open-source language model by ByteDance-Seed. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 32.9GB, Context: 64K, License: mit, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

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

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

Seed Coder 8B Reasoning Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Seed Coder 8B Reasoning
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Reasoning
Base Model(s)	Seed Coder 8B Base ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Base
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	32.9 GB
Updated	2026-09-18
Maintainer	ByteDance-Seed
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-7 5.0 GB: 2-of-7 5.0 GB: 3-of-7 4.8 GB: 4-of-7 5.0 GB: 5-of-7 5.0 GB: 6-of-7 3.2 GB: 7-of-7
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<[PAD▁TOKEN]>
Vocabulary Size	155136
Torch Data Type	float32

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Quantized Models of the Seed Coder 8B Reasoning

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Seed Coder 8B Reasoning GGUF	16	2215	2 GB
...ed Coder 8B Reasoning Mlx Fp16	0	5	16 GB

Best Alternatives to Seed Coder 8B Reasoning

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
CoolerCoder 8B Model Stock	128K / 16.1 GB	34	2
...ynesthesia 3.1 Task Arithmetic	128K / 16.1 GB	7	0
Replete Coder V2 Llama 3.1 8B	128K / 16.1 GB	19	9
Seed Coder 8B Reasoning Bf16	64K / 16.5 GB	161	23
Zeta 2.1	32K / 16.5 GB	2053	76
Zeta 2	32K / 16.5 GB	422	187
Seed Coder 8B Instruct	32K / 16.5 GB	4871	118
Seed Coder 8B Base	32K / 16.5 GB	530	74
Seed Coder 8B Instruct V1	32K / 32.9 GB	43	2
Seed Coder 8B Instruct	32K / 16.5 GB	25	1

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