Compare Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking from ByteDance and Grok 4.5 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking
Grok 4.5The Doubao-Seed-1.6-thinking model has significantly enhanced reasoning capabilities. Compared with Doubao-1.5-thinking-pro, it has further improvements in fundamental abilities such as coding, mathematics, and logical reasoning, and now also supports visual understanding. It supports a 256k context window, with output length supporting up to 16k tokens.
Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.
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Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking: $1.80/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Grok 4.5: 1.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking accepts 256,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.
Grok 4.5 at 25.7 tok/s and Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking at 9.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking accepts text, image and video input and supports function calling and structured outputs; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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