Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance) vs Quark AI 夸克AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's flagship consumer AI assistant
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Quark AI 夸克AI
Alibaba's AI-powered search and study assistant
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Free | Free |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | Free consumer tier; Doubao 1.5 Pro API ≈ $0.11 per million input tokens and ≈ $0.28 per million | Free core AI search and key productivity tools |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Surpassed 100 million daily active users by late 2025 | ~150 million monthly active users (March 2025) — China's most-used AI application. |
| Founded | 2023 | 2016 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | Doubao is ByteDance's flagship consumer AI assistant and one of the most-used chatbots in China, with 150M+ weekly active users. Its underlying Doubao/Seed model family is genuinely strong on Chinese-language tasks and a... |
Quark is Alibaba's China-market AI super-app — AI search, an AI browser with Qwen built in as the engine, documents, study tools, cloud storage and now AI glasses. Since December 2025 it sits inside Alibaba's Qianwen con... |
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