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Seed-Coder-8B
Model family: seed-coder
A small, open-weightA model where the trained weights are freely downloadable — you can run it yourself without contacting the creator. Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and Gemma are open-weight. Open-weight does not mean open-source: the training data and code often stay private. The license still governs what you can do with the weights, including whether you can use them commercially. code model from ByteDance's Seed team, with a reasoning-tuned variant — a self-hostable option for code generation and debugging on consumer hardware.
Identity
- Creator
- ByteDance
- Model family
- seed-coder
- Release date
- 2025-06-05
Technical specs
- Parameter count
- 8B
- Context window
- 33K tokens
- Modalities
- Code
- Text
- Primary capabilities
- Coding
- Instruction Following
- Reasoning
License
- License
- Apache License 2.0
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Terms
- Modification ✓
- Redistribution ✓
- Attribution ✓
Access
- Openness
- Open Weight
- Access methods
- Local Runtime Ollama
- Local Runtime Vllm
- Weights Download Hf
- Cost tier
- Self Hosted Only
- open-weight
- coding
- small
- china-based
- apache-2-0