Who ranks #1 on the Blink leaderboard?
As of August 31, 2026, Seed 2.1 Pro by ByteDance ranks #1 on Blink at 81.4%. API pricing is $0.89/M input and $4.45/M output.
As of August 31, 2026, Seed 2.1 Pro is #1 for Blink at 81.4%. Ranked by the Blink score 15 models in this index have a published Blink score. Blink leaderboard: rank models by Blink next to live API token prices.
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As of August 31, 2026, Seed 2.1 Pro by ByteDance is #1 for Blink at 81.4%. Ranked by the Blink score This board also tracks Blink. Next on the same board: Seed 2.1 Turbo and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct. This blink leaderboard ranks models by Blink. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.
Sources: OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)
| Rank | Model | Blink | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seed 2.1 Pro | 81.4% | $0.89 | $4.45 |
| 2 | Seed 2.1 Turbo | 79.4% | $0.50 | $2.50 |
| 3 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | 70.7% | $0.30 | $1.49 |
| 4 | Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | 69.1% | $0.08 | $0.50 |
| 5 | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | 68.7% | $0.18 | $2.09 |
| 6 | Qwen3 VL 32B Thinking | 68.5% | $0.16 | $0.64 |
| 7 | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | 67.7% | $0.20 | $0.70 |
| 8 | Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | 67.3% | $0.10 | $0.42 |
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As of August 31, 2026, Seed 2.1 Pro by ByteDance ranks #1 on Blink at 81.4%. API pricing is $0.89/M input and $4.45/M output.
The current Blink ranking as of August 31, 2026 is 1. Seed 2.1 Pro at 81.4%; 2. Seed 2.1 Turbo at 79.4%; 3. Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at 70.7%.
LFM2.5-VL-3B is the cheapest scored model on this blink leaderboard at $0.05/M input and $0.10/M output ($0.15 blended). Seed 2.1 Pro still leads Blink at 81.4%.
Not automatically. Seed 2.1 Pro leads Blink, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Blink against input/output price, context window, and related evals.
Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 31, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.
Blink is a public LLM eval (the Blink score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Blink leaderboard. Models are sorted by Blink, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.
Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published Blink score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.