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| Attribute | Seedream 5.0 Litedoubao-seedream-5-0-260128 | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | Hy4 previewhy4-preview |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Request | $0.235 / request | — | — |
| Billing | Pay Per Request | — | — |
| Cache Write (5m) | Not applicable | $0.75 / 1M | $0.834 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | Not applicable | $0.75 / 1M | $0.834 / 1M |
| Cache Read | Not applicable | $0.75 / 1M | $0.834 / 1M |
| Input | — | $0.75 / 1M | $0.834 / 1M |
| Output | — | $3.75 / 1M | $2.50 / 1M |
| Web Search | — | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 128K | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | No | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | No | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | No | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | ByteDance | Tencent | |
| Category | image | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay Per Request | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Doubao-Seedream 5.0 Lite is ByteDance's optimized text-to-image generation model designed for fast, cost-efficient visual creation while retaining strong visual quality. It offers improved prompt understanding and rendering performance over previous "Lite" variants, making it suitable for real-time applications and interactive creative workflows. With a focus on speed, responsiveness, and lightweight deployment, Seedream 5.0-Lite enables rapid generation of visually appealing images across a wide range of styles and scenarios, making it ideal for user-facing creative tools and large-scale content pipelines. | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality. | Tencent Hy4 Preview is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Tencent, featuring 770B total parameters with 49B activated per token. It is designed for coding agents, complex tool-driven workflows, and professional productivity tasks that require strong planning and reliable execution. Optimized for context continuity and sustained multi-step work, Hy4 Preview is well suited for long-horizon coding, agentic automation, tool orchestration, and complex real-world workflows. |