Doubao Image 豆包图像 (Seedream) vs Tencent Hy Image (HunyuanImage 混元生图)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Doubao Image 豆包图像 (Seedream)
ByteDance's Seedream image generation inside the Doubao app
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Tencent Hy Image (HunyuanImage 混元生图)
Tencent's 80B open-weight image model, plus an API-only Hy Image 3.5 p...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.3 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Image creation and editing free in the Doubao app (region-gated outside mainland China); paid Pro plans add quota | HunyuanImage 3.0 weights free to self-host under Tencent's community licence (excludes EU, UK and South Korea); consumer use in Tencent's Yuanbao app |
| Paid from | Seedream API from $0.018/image (BytePlus); Doubao Pro from ¥68/month | $0.024/image (Hy Image 3.5 preview API, up to 2K, Tencent Cloud International) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 |
| Maker | ByteDance | Tencent |
| Verdict | Doubao's image creation runs on ByteDance's Seedream models and is especially good at Chinese prompts and Chinese text inside images. Basic use is free in the app, and the API is cheap: BytePlus lists Seedream 5.0 Flash... |
HunyuanImage 3.0 is one of the most capable image models you can download, with strong Chinese-language prompt handling and editing variants, and the per-image API for Hy Image 3.5 preview is inexpensive.It is not open s... |
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