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 (16 vs 4). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Doubao ByteDance | Hunyuan Tencent |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Seedance 2.5 | Hunyuan-role-latest |
| Entry cost | Pricing varies by model (pay-as-you-go API). Refer to the Volcano Ark pricing console. | Free trial up to 1 million tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward. |
| Pricing tiers | App free · Volcano Engine API free | Free Trial (1M tokens) free |
| Model stack | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · Doubao 1.8 Pro · Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro · Seed-Evolving Agent · Seedream | 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 | 4 | 16 |
| 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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