Models

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Output tokens cost $0.44 per million on Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $0.04 per million on Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.04 per million on Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 256,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.8s on Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 46.4 tok/s on Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

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Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash
ByteDance · text, image, video → 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$0.04 /M
Output$0.44 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

Input$0.34 /M
Output$1.01 /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
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$0.04
$0.34
Output /M
$0.44
$1.01
Cache read /M
$0.04
$0.03
Context length
256,000
983,616
Max output
33,000
131,072
Time to First Token
1.8 s
2.4 s
Throughput
46.4 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinking,toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
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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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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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Cost calculator

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

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash
$9.24 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash: $0.44/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash: 1.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash accepts 256,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 33,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash at 46.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash accepts text, image and video input and supports function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash and Qwen3.8 Max Preview 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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