Models

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Doubao Seed 1.6

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Doubao Seed 1.6 from ByteDance on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Anthropic logo
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
ByteDance logo
Doubao Seed 1.6
ByteDance · text, image, video → text

Doubao-Seed-1.6 is a brand new multimodal deep reasoning model that supports four types of reasoning effort: minimal, low, medium, and high. It offers stronger model performance, serving complex tasks and challenging scenarios. It supports a 256k context window, with output length up to a maximum of 32k tokens.

Input$0.18 /M
Output$1.8 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 4.8
Doubao Seed 1.6
Input /M
$5
$0.18
Output /M
$25
$1.8
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
1,000,000
256,000
Max output
128,000
32,000
Time to First Token
1.1 s
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Throughput
82.6 tok/s
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Modalities
textimagepdf
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
May 28, 2026
October 15, 2025

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Doubao Seed 1.6
$37.80 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, Doubao Seed 1.6?

Doubao Seed 1.6: $1.8/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How large is each context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Doubao Seed 1.6 accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 32,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Doubao Seed 1.6 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Doubao Seed 1.6 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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