# Inkling vs Seed 1.6 Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling and Seed 1.6 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-vs-seed-1-6-flash
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Inkling and Seed 1.6 Flash.

## Summary

- Inkling and Seed 1.6 Flash do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling | Seed 1.6 Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | ByteDance |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 60.29 | 43.56 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 21 | 0 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.87 / $4.68 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 38.3 (Supported · #122/152)
- Seed 1.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Seed 1.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 77.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 74.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 47.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 41.2 (Supported · #111/151)
- Seed 1.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Seed 1.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 54.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 4.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 49.2 (#38/48)
- Seed 1.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Seed 1.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 82% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 78.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 74.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Seed 1.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 57.5 (Supported · #43/182)
- Seed 1.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Seed 1.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 30% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 86.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 85.2 (#43/121)
- Seed 1.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Seed 1.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 78.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Seed 1.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Seed 1.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 97.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Inkling and Seed 1.6 Flash on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

## Related Comparisons

- [Inkling vs Inkling-Small](/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small)
- [Seed 1.6 Flash vs Inkling-Small](/compare/inkling-small-vs-seed-1-6-flash)
- [Inkling vs Seed 1.6](/compare/inkling-vs-seed-1-6)
- [Seed 1.6 Flash vs Seed 1.6](/compare/seed-1-6-vs-seed-1-6-flash)

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