Compare Doubao Seed 1.6 from ByteDance and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen 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
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewDoubao-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.
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.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; Doubao Seed 1.6: $1.8/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Doubao Seed 1.6 accepts 256,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Doubao Seed 1.6 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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