Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek and Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking from Doubao on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Doubao Seed 1.6 ThinkingDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 is DeepSeek's efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts text model, designed for fast inference and workflows requiring tool use, function calling, and structured outputs. It features 284B total parameters with 13B activated parameters and supports a 1M-token context window with cost-effective pricing.
The Doubao-Seed-1.6-thinking model has significantly enhanced reasoning capabilities. Compared with Doubao-1.5-thinking-pro, it has further improvements in fundamental abilities such as coding, mathematics, and logical reasoning, and now also supports visual understanding. It supports a 256k context window, with output length supporting up to 16k tokens.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.928/M output tokens; Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking: $2.52/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Doubao Seed 1.6 Thinking accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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