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.
Doubao Seed 1.6 250615 vs GLM 5.2
Compare Doubao Seed 1.6 250615 from ByteDance and GLM 5.2 from Z.AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GLM 5.2GLM-5.2 is Z.ai’s flagship model for the era of long-horizon tasks. With a truly usable 1M-token context window, it can handle project-level engineering context, execute long-running tasks more reliably, follow engineering standards more consistently, and complete the full development workflow from requirements to multi-platform deployment in a single task.
Pricing & Specifications
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: Doubao Seed 1.6 250615, GLM 5.2?
Doubao Seed 1.6 250615: $2.52/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $3.9438/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
GLM 5.2: 0.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Doubao Seed 1.6 250615 at 49.6 tok/s and GLM 5.2 at 37.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Can I call Doubao Seed 1.6 250615 and GLM 5.2 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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