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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-22.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo
Vendordeepseekbytedance-seed
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.22/M$0.50/M
Output Price$0.66/M$2.50/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output384,000262,144
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Who wins by task?

TaskDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo
SQL Generation 133 130
Code Review 132 126
Code Completion 131 128
Code Refactoring 136 127
Bug Fixing 136 130
Unit Test Generation 124 121
Code Documentation 131 125
Regex Writing 119 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 128
ETL Scripting 128 122
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 137 129
Short-Form Summarization 123 123
Blog Post Writing 121 118

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

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