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ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

	ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	bytedance-seed	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	62.3
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$2.50/M	$1.25/M
Context Window	262,144	1,048,576
Max Output	262,144	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	61.8
ai_index_agentic	-	44.8
ai_index_coding	-	81.4

Who wins by task?

Task	ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	130	161
Code Review	126	157
Code Completion	128	133
Code Refactoring	127	156
Bug Fixing	130	166
Unit Test Generation	121	146
Code Documentation	125	140
Regex Writing	119	131
CI/CD Pipelines	117	137
Frontend Component Design	122	139
Data Analysis	124	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	128	149
ETL Scripting	122	147
JSON Extraction	131	145
Bulk Data Labeling	129	134
OCR / Document Parsing	128	143
Table Extraction from PDFs	128	143
Long-Document Summarization	129	153
Short-Form Summarization	123	129
Blog Post Writing	118	135

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →