Doubao
ByteDance's assistant, bundled across its apps and priced aggressively on Volcano Engine.
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Doubao vs Hunyuan
Doubao (ByteDance) and Hunyuan (Tencent) both sit in Writing. Hunyuan shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (12 vs 8). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Doubao ByteDance | Hunyuan Tencent |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Doubao Seedance 2.5 | Hunyuan |
| Entry cost | Pricing varies by model. Paid API usage billed via Volcengine. | Free trial quota of 1M tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward. |
| Pricing tiers | App free · Volcano Engine API free | Free Trial Package free |
| Model stack | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro / flash · Seed-Evolving | Hunyuan-a13b · Hunyuan-embedding · Hunyuan-role-latest · Hunyuan-t1-vision · Hunyuan-T2 · Hunyuan-translation · Hunyuan-translation-lite · Hunyuan-turbos-vision · Hunyuan-turbos-vision-video · Hunyuan3D · HunyuanVideo · Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct |
| Context window | 256K tokens | 256K tokens |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 8 | 12 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Voice mode, Image generation, Real-time camera, Browser extension, Long docs, Text Generation, Video Generation, Image Generation | Image generation, Video generation, 3D asset generation, WeChat integration, Text Generation, Roleplay, Translation, Multimodal Vision |
Hunyuan
Hunyuan spans text, image, video and 3D generation, with several components open-sourced.
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