Seed 1.6 Flash vs Grok Code Fast 1

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Seed 1.6 Flash has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 56 versus 54. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Seed 1.6 Flash's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 73.1 against 50.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 74 to 40. Grok Code Fast 1 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Seed 1.6 Flash is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok Code Fast 1 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.

Quick Verdict

Pick Seed 1.6 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok Code Fast 1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Grok Code Fast 1

Seed 1.6 Flash

54.5

Grok Code Fast 1

55.7

52
Terminal-Bench 2.0
59
62
BrowseComp
57
52
OSWorld-Verified
51

Coding

Grok Code Fast 1

Seed 1.6 Flash

27.6

Grok Code Fast 1

32.8

59
HumanEval
60
24
SWE-bench Verified
31
25
LiveCodeBench
24
31
SWE-bench Pro
42

Multimodal & Grounded

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

73.1

Grok Code Fast 1

50.4

74
MMMU-Pro
40
72
OfficeQA Pro
63

Reasoning

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

66.8

Grok Code Fast 1

63.7

61
SimpleQA
61
59
MuSR
59
75
BBH
75
70
LongBench v2
64
74
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

Grok Code Fast 1

Seed 1.6 Flash

47.3

Grok Code Fast 1

48

65
MMLU
64
64
GPQA
63
62
SuperGPQA
61
60
OpenBookQA
59
65
MMLU-Pro
65
3
HLE
7
57
FrontierScience
57

Instruction Following

Seed 1.6 Flash

Seed 1.6 Flash

81

Grok Code Fast 1

79

81
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Grok Code Fast 1

Seed 1.6 Flash

72.8

Grok Code Fast 1

73.7

76
MGSM
75
71
MMLU-ProX
73

Mathematics

Grok Code Fast 1

Seed 1.6 Flash

67.1

Grok Code Fast 1

67.5

64
AIME 2023
64
66
AIME 2024
66
65
AIME 2025
65
60
HMMT Feb 2023
60
62
HMMT Feb 2024
62
61
HMMT Feb 2025
61
63
BRUMO 2025
63
72
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Seed 1.6 Flash or Grok Code Fast 1?

Seed 1.6 Flash is ahead overall, 56 to 54. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 74 and 40.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 47.3. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Seed 1.6 Flash or Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 32.8 versus 27.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Seed 1.6 Flash or Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 67.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Seed 1.6 Flash or Grok Code Fast 1?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.8 versus 63.7. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.7 versus 54.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Grok Code Fast 1?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 50.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Seed 1.6 Flash or Grok Code Fast 1?

Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 79. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Seed 1.6 Flash or Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.7 versus 72.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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