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Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash 250615 vs GLM 5.2

Compare Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash 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.

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Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash 250615
ByteDance · → text

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.

Input$0.044 /M
Output$0.44 /M
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GLM 5.2
Z.AI · text → text

GLM-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.

Input$1.1268 /M
Output$3.9438 /M
Cache read$0.2817 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash 250615
GLM 5.2
Input /M
$0.044
$1.1268
Output /M
$0.44
$3.9438
Cache read /M
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$0.2817
Context length
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1,000,000
Max output
0
131,072
Time to First Token
1.9 s
0.7 s
Throughput
76.3 tok/s
37.0 tok/s
Modalities
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
June 15, 2025
June 16, 2026

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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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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Cost calculator

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

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash 250615
$9.24 /mo
GLM 5.2
$127 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash 250615, GLM 5.2?

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash 250615: $0.44/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 Flash 250615 at 76.3 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 Flash 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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