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ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-04.

	ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
Vendor	bytedance-seed	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	68.7
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$2.50/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	262,144	524,288
Max Output	235,929	471,859
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	67.9
ai_index_agentic	-	52.6
ai_index_coding	-	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
SQL Generation	130	156
Code Review	126	155
Code Completion	128	133
Code Refactoring	127	154
Bug Fixing	130	170
Unit Test Generation	121	140
Code Documentation	125	141
Regex Writing	119	133
CI/CD Pipelines	117	135
Frontend Component Design	122	137
Data Analysis	124	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	128	139
ETL Scripting	122	145
JSON Extraction	131	134
Bulk Data Labeling	129	130
OCR / Document Parsing	128	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	128	136
Long-Document Summarization	129	155
Short-Form Summarization	123	130
Blog Post Writing	118	136

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