Shopping for a duty or tactical light? Every Olight and Acebeam tactical torch we stock in the UAE is in our Tactical Flashlights collection.
Updated September 2026: prices checked against lumens.ae; specs per Olight and Acebeam.
Two torches, one budget. The Olight Seeker 4 Pro is our best-selling torch and lists at AED 567 (AED 510 on offer as we write this). The Acebeam L35 2.0 is AED 499. Both run one 21700 cell, both claim roughly 5,000 lumens, and both get asked about in the same breath by people kitting out a 4×4, a security team or a campsite. They are not the same light. One is built to fill a space; the other is built to reach across it.
The 30-second verdict
Buy the Acebeam L35 2.0 if the torch is a work tool. It reaches 650 m against the Seeker's 260 m, charges through a USB-C port on the body, is sealed to IP68, and has a tail switch that fires Turbo or Strobe instantly. Security patrols, site work, roadside recovery: the L35 2.0.
Buy the Olight Seeker 4 Pro if the torch lives in the boot, the camp box or the kitchen drawer. Its rotary knob dims step-lessly from 5 lumens to 4,600, the flood beam lights a whole campsite instead of a circle, it holds its Turbo two and a half times longer, and it comes in four colours. You give up reach and you have to remember the charging holster.
The rest of this page explains those trade-offs with the numbers behind them.
Seeker 4 Pro vs L35 2.0: side by side
| Olight Seeker 4 Pro | Acebeam L35 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Max output | 4,600 lm | 5,000 lm |
| Beam distance | 260 m | 650 m |
| Peak intensity | 16,895 cd | 105,625 cd |
| Turbo hold before step-down | 2.5 min | about 1 min |
| High mode (sustained) | 1,200 lm for 135 min | 1,800 lm for 90 min |
| Optic / LED | TIR lens, cool white 5,700–7,000K | Reflector, CREE XHP70.3 HI, 6500K |
| Controls | Metal rotary knob, step-less dimming | Side switch + tail switch, instant Turbo/Strobe |
| Charging | USB-C through the holster, or MCC3 magnetic (no port on the torch) | USB-C port on the body |
| Battery | 1× Olight 21700, 5,000 mAh (included) | 1× Acebeam 21700 (included) |
| Water / dust | IPX8 | IP68, submersible to 5 m |
| Size / weight | 133 mm, 35 mm head, 205 g | 152 mm, 54.2 mm head, 250 g |
| Extras | Hidden battery/brightness indicators, holster included | Stainless-steel strike bezel |
| Colours (UAE) | Matte Black, Midnight Blue, Orange, OD Green | Black |
| Price at lumens.ae | AED 567 list (AED 510 on offer at time of writing) | AED 499 |
Specs are the manufacturers' ANSI figures. Both torches ship free inside the UAE (orders over AED 300), with cash on delivery and 1–3 day delivery.
Reach: 260 m vs 650 m is the whole story
The L35 2.0 throws two and a half times further than the Seeker 4 Pro, and the reason is intensity, not lumens. Acebeam puts a big XHP70.3 HI emitter behind a 54 mm reflector and gets 105,625 candela. Olight puts its LEDs behind a compact TIR lens and gets 16,895 candela. That is six times the intensity on the L35 side, from a torch with only 400 more lumens. If the difference between candela and lumens is new to you, our flood vs throw explainer covers it in five minutes.
What it means on the ground: on the hard shoulder of the E11 at night, the L35 2.0 will pick out a camel or a stopped lorry well before the Seeker does. Inside a compound, a warehouse or a campsite, the Seeker's wide, even spill is more useful, because you see everything at once rather than a bright disc with dark edges. Neither is a true searchlight; for that, read the long-throw and search flashlight guide, where the T29 and K75 2.0 live.
Brightness that lasts: the mode ladders
Headline lumens are a sprint on both torches. The honest comparison is what each holds once the heat sensor steps in.
| Seeker 4 Pro | Runtime | L35 2.0 | Runtime |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turbo 4,600 → 1,200 → 600 lm | 2.5 min + 122 min + 35 min | Turbo 5,000 lm | about 1 min, then 1 h 15 min at the step-down level |
| High 1,200 → 600 → 300 lm | 135 + 35 + 10 min | High 1,800 lm | 1 h 30 min |
| Med 300 lm | 11 h | Mid 2 800 lm | 4 h |
| Low 50 lm | 60 h | Mid 1 230 lm | 12 h 45 min |
| Moon 5 lm | 15 days | Low 80 lm / Moon 1 lm | 33 h 30 min / 12 days |
Read it two ways. The Seeker 4 Pro holds its full 4,600 lumens for 2.5 minutes; the L35 2.0 gives you 5,000 for roughly one. If you like to hit Turbo and sweep an area, the Olight keeps it up longer. Below Turbo the Acebeam pulls ahead: 1,800 lumens for an hour and a half is a stronger working level than the Seeker's 1,200 for two and a quarter hours, and the L35's 800-lumen mode for four hours is a setting the Seeker simply doesn't have (it jumps from 1,200 down to 300). For a full shift on a gate or a site, that 800 lm / 4 h step is the L35's quiet advantage. Why every torch does this, and why July makes it happen sooner, is in our turbo-lumens truth piece.
Controls: a dimmer knob or a tail switch
This is where the two torches feel most different in the hand, and it's the reason we sell the Seeker 4 Pro to families and the L35 2.0 to guards.
The Seeker's metal rotary knob dims continuously. Twist a little for enough light to find a torch-shy toddler in a tent; twist all the way for the full wall. No mode cycling, no accidental strobe, and it works with gloves on. It's the most pleasant interface Olight makes, and after a week you miss it on everything else.
The L35 2.0 has two switches. The side button walks through the six levels; the tail switch gives instant Turbo and instant Strobe from off, which is what a patrol or a roadside stop actually needs. You can't dim it smoothly, but you can hit maximum in one press without looking. Add the strike bezel and it's the more tactical tool by a distance. Our security-guard flashlight guide explains why a tail switch matters on duty.
Charging: the holster catch
The L35 2.0 has a USB-C port on the torch body. Any phone charger, any cable, any car socket. Done.
The Seeker 4 Pro has no port on the body. It charges over USB-C through its holster (about 3.5 hours) or with the optional MCC3 magnetic cable (about 4.5 hours). At home this is a genuine convenience: the torch goes back into the holster on the wall and comes out full. On a three-day trip to Liwa it's a packing item you can forget. If your torch spends its life in a car door pocket with no holster, the L35's port is the practical choice. Both charge from a 21700 that should never be topped up inside a car that's sat in the sun; the summer heat guide has the safe temperatures.
Build, water and weight
Both are properly waterproof, but the ratings differ. The L35 2.0 is IP68: dust-tight and rated for submersion to 5 m. The Seeker 4 Pro is IPX8: rated for submersion, with no dust figure published (in practice, rain and a drop in a cooler box are non-events, and those 1,200 laser-pierced indicator holes don't break the seal). For a Fujairah beach or a sandstorm on the Al Ain road, the IP68 label is the more complete promise. We unpack the difference in what IP68 actually means.
Size favours the Olight: 133 mm and 205 g against 152 mm and 250 g. The Seeker fits a jacket pocket; the L35, with its 54 mm head, is a belt-and-holster light. The Seeker also comes in four colours, which sounds trivial until three people at the same campsite own black torches.
Which one should you buy?
Security, site and patrol work: the Acebeam L35 2.0. Tail switch, 650 m, IP68, USB-C on the body, 800 lm for a four-hour stretch, AED 499.
The torch in the boot of the family 4×4: the L35 2.0 if the car does Hatta and desert tracks, the Seeker 4 Pro if it does school runs and the odd breakdown. Reach wins on unlit roads.
Camping, the villa, power cuts and dog walks: the Olight Seeker 4 Pro. The knob, the flood and the holster make it the easier torch to live with, and 260 m is more than any campsite needs.
You want one light for everything: on balance, the L35 2.0. It gives up the dimmer knob and 45 g, and in return does the far-away job the Seeker can't. If you'd rather stay in the Olight family and want more reach than the 4 Pro, read Seeker 4 Pro vs Seeker Ultra before spending more.
Full single-model reviews: Olight Seeker 4 Pro review and Acebeam L35 2.0 review. For how the two brands differ across the whole range, see Acebeam vs Olight, or start from the best tactical flashlights in Dubai roundup. Both torches are in stock in the UAE with cash on delivery and 14-day returns.
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