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Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score66.5-
Input Price$2.00/M$0.07/M
Output Price$12.00/M$0.30/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output65,53632,768
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index49.0-
eqbench74.3-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash
SQL Generation 143 131
Code Review 150 126
Code Completion 120 129
Code Refactoring 153 127
Bug Fixing 154 130
Unit Test Generation 135 121
Code Documentation 139 126
Regex Writing 125 119
CI/CD Pipelines 131 117
Frontend Component Design 130 122
Data Analysis 135 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 139 128
ETL Scripting 142 122
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 117 129
OCR / Document Parsing 135 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 128
Long-Document Summarization 154 129
Short-Form Summarization 117 123
Blog Post Writing 131 119

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

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