ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-02.
| ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | bytedance-seed | inclusionai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 30.4 |
| Input Price | $0.50/M | $0.02/M |
| Output Price | $2.50/M | $0.06/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 235,929 | 32,768 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | - |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 33.2 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.037 and Seed 2.1 Turbo costs $1.12, so Ling 3.0 Flash is about 30.6 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.
Only Seed 2.1 Turbo offers image input and video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Seed 2.1 Turbo scores higher on 3 (Frontend Component Design, OCR / Document Parsing, Table Extraction from PDFs), Ling 3.0 Flash on 17 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Seed 2.1 Turbo was released in August 2026 and Ling 3.0 Flash in July 2026.
Pick Seed 2.1 Turbo if you need image input or video input; pick Ling 3.0 Flash if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 130 | 135 |
| Code Review | 126 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 128 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 133 |
| Bug Fixing | 130 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 121 | 125 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 129 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 123 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 117 | 121 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 96 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 129 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 128 | 129 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 127 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 132 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 130 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 84 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 84 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 135 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 125 |
| Blog Post Writing | 118 | 123 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →