Output tokens cost $0.66 per million on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $0.08 per million on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.08 per million on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 256,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 0.6s on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 56.0 tok/s on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewDoubao-Seed-1.6-lite is a brand new multimodal deep reasoning model that supports adjustable reasoning effort, with four modes: Minimal, Low, Medium, and High. It offers better cost performance, making it the best choice for common tasks, with a context window of up to 256k.
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.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite: $0.66/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite accepts 256,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite at 56.0 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite 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.
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