Compare Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash 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.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash
GLM 5.2Doubao-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.
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.
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Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash: $0.44/M output tokens; GLM 5.2: $2.524/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash accepts 256,000 and GLM 5.2 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 33,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash and 131,072 tokens on GLM 5.2.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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