MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI vs Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI
MiniMax's consumer AI suite — chat, voice, video, now a public company
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Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's flagship consumer AI assistant
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | Free tier (a few short watermarked clips/day, no card) | Free consumer tier; Doubao 1.5 Pro API ≈ $0.11 per million input tokens and ≈ $0.28 per million |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Android app 13M+ installs, ~70K ratings (~4.06/5 on Google Play) | Surpassed 100 million daily active users by late 2025 |
| Founded | 2021 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | MiniMax is a public company now — listed in Hong Kong in January 2026 — and Hailuo is its consumer face: chat, voice, and the video generator that keeps topping physics benchmarks. Hailuo 2.3 produces motion quality West... |
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... |
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