The Olight Seeker Ultra landed on our shelf this week at AED 669. Sitting right next to it is the Seeker 4 Pro at AED 567 — the torch we sell more of than almost anything else in this class.
So we did what we always do before writing the sales copy: we put the two spec sheets side by side. What came out was not the story we expected.
The 30-second verdict
The Seeker Ultra gives you 200 more lumens and 5 more metres than the Seeker 4 Pro, for AED 102 more. On the headline numbers, that is a rounding error dressed up as an upgrade.
The real reason to buy it is buried three rows down the spec sheet: Medium is 800 lumens for 12 hours, where the Seeker 4 Pro’s Medium is 300 lumens for 11 hours. That is the mode you will actually live in, and the Ultra is nearly three times brighter there.
The catch: on Turbo, the cheaper Seeker 4 Pro holds a higher output for far longer. More on that below, because it is the single most important line in this review.
The number that stopped me
Both torches step down from Turbo — every high-output light does, and we timed every torch we sell to show exactly how fast. But they step down very differently.
- Seeker Ultra: 4,800 lm for 2.5 minutes, then straight down to 600 lm for 70 minutes.
- Seeker 4 Pro: 4,600 lm for 2.5 minutes, then 1,200 lm for 122 minutes, then 600 lm for another 35 minutes.
Read that again. After the first two and a half minutes, the cheaper torch is putting out twice the light, for twice as long. If your use case is “point it at something far away and keep it there for an hour” — search, recovery, site work — the Seeker 4 Pro is the better tool and the cheaper one.
We are not going to pretend otherwise just because the Ultra is newer and has a bigger number on the box.
Where the Ultra actually earns the extra AED 102
1. The 800-lumen Medium. Twelve hours at 800 lumens is a genuinely useful all-night setting — enough to light a campsite, a workshop or a compound wall, without touching the battery panic zone. The Seeker 4 Pro gives you 300 lm for 11 hours in the same slot. This is the Ultra’s best feature and Olight barely markets it.
2. A bigger battery. 5,800 mAh (20.9 Wh) versus 5,000 mAh. That is where the longer Low (69 h vs 60 h) and Moon (17 days vs 15 days) runtimes come from.
3. The OAL™ body. Olight’s own alloy, which they rate at roughly 1.73× the hardness of standard 6061 aluminium — the material the Seeker 4 Pro uses. In practice this means it scuffs less in a toolbox or a truck door pocket. It is a real difference, but it is a cosmetic-durability difference, not a performance one.
4. The holster is smarter. It auto-locks when you drop the light in, unlocks when you pull it out, mounts to a belt, MOLLE or the included bracket, and automatically dims the light below 600 lumens while holstered so you do not cook it (or yourself) by accident.
5. The display. A laser-microperforated panel shows brightness level, battery status and lockout at a glance, and the enlarged metal rotary switch does 360° stepless dimming rather than fixed steps.
Head to head: Seeker Ultra vs Seeker 4 Pro
| Seeker Ultra | Seeker 4 Pro | |
| Price | AED 669 | AED 567 |
| Max output | 4,800 lm | 4,600 lm |
| Beam distance | 265 m | 260 m |
| Turbo step-down | 4,800 → 600 lm (2.5 + 70 min) | 4,600 → 1,200 → 600 lm (2.5 + 122 + 35 min) |
| High | 1,200 → 300 lm (23 + 15 min) | 1,200 → 600 → 300 lm (135 + 35 + 10 min) |
| Medium | 800 lm, 12 h | 300 lm, 11 h |
| Low | 50 lm, 69 h | 50 lm, 60 h |
| Moon | 5 lm, 17 days | 5 lm, 15 days |
| Battery | 5,800 mAh 21700 (20.9 Wh) | 5,000 mAh 21700 |
| Charging | USB-C + MCC3 magnetic | USB-C (via holster) + MCC3 magnetic |
| Body | OAL™ alloy (~1.73× 6061) | Aluminium alloy (6061 class) |
| Water rating | Not published on our listing | IPX8 |
| Peak intensity | Not published | 16,895 candela |
| Weight / length | Not published | 205 g / 133 mm |
| Colours in stock | Olive Green only | 4 (Black, Midnight Blue, Orange, OD Green) |
Full specifications — Seeker Ultra
| Max output | 4,800 lumens |
| Beam distance | 265 metres |
| Light source | 4 × high-performance LED + TIR lens |
| Battery | 5,800 mAh 21700 (20.9 Wh), rechargeable |
| Charging | USB-C + MCC3 magnetic (dual charging) |
| Turbo | 4,800 → 600 lm — 2.5 + 70 min |
| High | 1,200 → 300 lm — 23 + 15 min |
| Medium | 800 lm — 12 hours |
| Low | 50 lm — 69 hours |
| Moon | 5 lm — 17 days |
| Switch | Metal rotary side switch, 360° stepless dimming + status display |
| Body | OAL™ proprietary aluminium alloy |
| Holster | Included — auto lock/unlock, belt / MOLLE / bracket, auto-dims below 600 lm |
| Colour | Olive Green |
| In the box | Flashlight, holster, MCC3 charging cable, mounting bracket, user manual |
| Price | AED 669 (10 in stock, Dubai) |
Three things our own listing does not tell you
We would rather you hear this from us than find out after the box is open.
1. There is no published IP rating. The Seeker 4 Pro is rated IPX8 — submersible. The Seeker Ultra’s spec sheet, as supplied to us, does not carry an IP figure at all. Until we can confirm it, treat this light as rain-and-splash safe rather than dive-safe. If waterproofing is the deciding factor for you, message us before you order and we will chase the number down. (New to IP codes? Here is what IPX8 and IP68 actually mean.)
2. No USB-C cable in the box. The light has a USB-C port, but the box contents list an MCC3 magnetic charging cable and a mounting bracket — not a USB-C lead. The Seeker 4 Pro box does include one. You almost certainly have a spare USB-C cable already; we just do not want you counting on one that is not there.
3. One colour, ten units. Olive Green is the only finish we have, and we brought in ten. The Seeker 4 Pro comes in four colours with forty units behind it. If you want a choice of finish, that decision is already made for you.
Who should buy which
Buy the Seeker Ultra if you want one light that runs usefully bright all night. The 800-lumen / 12-hour Medium is the whole argument: campsite, workshop, generator shed, long desert night. The tougher OAL body and the auto-dimming holster are worth having if the light lives in a work vehicle.
Buy the Seeker 4 Pro if you need sustained high output — 1,200 lumens for two solid hours beats anything the Ultra will hold. It is also AED 102 cheaper, published IPX8, and available in four colours. For most buyers walking in cold, this is still the one we point at. Our full Seeker 4 Pro review is here.
How it fits the rest of our shelf
At AED 669 the Seeker Ultra sits in a crowded band:
- Acebeam E75 — AED 399, 4,500 lm. Similar output for AED 270 less, in a smaller EDC body.
- LOOP GEAR SK05 Pro 2 — AED 599, 5,000 lm, IP68, and it doubles as a power bank.
- Olight Marauder Mini 2 — AED 1,080 if you need 10,000 lumens of flood and a 750 m spot in one body.
None of those replace the Seeker Ultra’s all-night Medium. But if raw lumens-per-dirham is your metric, the E75 wins this shelf outright.
Should you buy it?
Yes — if you read the Medium row and thought “that is exactly what I keep running out of.” Twelve hours at 800 lumens from one 21700 cell is a genuinely good number, and nothing else we stock at this price does it.
No — if you were buying it because 4,800 beats 4,600. That gap is invisible in the dark, and the cheaper torch beside it will out-shine the Ultra for the entire second hour of any real job.
Still deciding? Start with our plain-English guide to choosing a flashlight, or read up on why beam distance and lumens are not the same thing. If you just want the shortlist, our best rechargeable torches in the UAE and overall best torch light guide cover the whole shelf.
View the Olight Seeker Ultra — AED 669, in stock in Dubai
Prices and stock in this article were pulled live from our catalogue on 5 August 2026. Runtime figures are the manufacturer’s published step-down numbers, not our own lab measurements — we tell you which is which.
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