Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash 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.
Claude Opus 4.8
Doubao Seed 1.6 FlashClaude 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
Doubao-Seed-1.6-flash is an extremely fast multimodal deep thinking model, with TPOT requiring only 10ms. It supports both text and visual understanding, with its text comprehension skills surpassing the previous generation lite model and its visual understanding on par with competitor's pro series models. It supports a 256k context window and an output length of up to 16k tokens.
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Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash: $0.44/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 33,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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