Gemini 3 Flash vs Seed-1.8

Gemini 3 Flash

Google DeepMind

Gemini 3 Flash, released by Google in December 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 3 family that delivers reasoning and coding performance with efficiency optimized for high-volume workloads. It features a 1M token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, and native support for text, image, audio, video, and PDF input. Gemini 3 Flash targets cost-sensitive agentic workflows, document processing, and production APIs requiring fast, capable multimodal responses.

ByteDance

Seed-1.8, developed by ByteDance Seed, is a generalized agentic large language model supporting text and image input, with industry-leading GUI agent capabilities and improvements in multimodal reasoning over its predecessor Seed1.5-VL. It targets information retrieval, code generation, GUI interaction, and complex agentic workflows requiring robust multimodal understanding.