Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Seed 2.1 Pro: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.7 Flash is developed by Google, while Seed 2.1 Pro comes from ByteDance. Seed 2.1 Pro was released in June 2026, and Gemini 3.7 Flash followed 2 months later in August 2026.
The two models share 4 published benchmarks. Gemini 3.7 Flash leads on 3 of them, Seed 2.1 Pro on 1. The widest gaps are on Agents' Last Exam, where Seed 2.1 Pro scores 41.4% against 26.3%; Terminal-Bench 2.1, where Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 85.8% against 71.0%. Averaged across everything we track, Gemini 3.7 Flash sits at 59.8% and Seed 2.1 Pro at 63.7%.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is available through an API at $0.75 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Seed 2.1 Pro, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.7 Flash | Seed 2.1 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Company | ByteDance | |
| Release Date | August 13, 2026 | June 24, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | — |
| Context (output) | 66K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.75 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $3.75 | — |
| Average Score | 59.8% | 63.7% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Agents' Last Exam | 26.3% | 41.4% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 85.8% | 71.0% |
| LVBench | 85.4% | 78.0% |
| CharXiv-R | 88.7% | 86.4% |
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Verdict
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.7 Flash — 0.6, Seed 2.1 Pro — 0.6.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is newer: released 8/13/2026 vs 6/24/2026.
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