MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI vs Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance) vs Kimi 月之暗面 vs Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
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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Kimi 月之暗面
Long-context chat assistant from Moonshot AI
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Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
Tencent's consumer-facing AI assistant app
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free | 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 | API from $0.95/$4.00 per M tokens (input/output; OpenRouter ~$0.75/$3.50); free web tier | Free to use within the WeChat ecosystem; no published consumer subscription tier |
| 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 | 36M+ MAU (as of late 2024) | ~57 million MAU (March 2026), 4th in China behind Doubao, Qianwen, and DeepSeek |
| Founded | 2021 | 2023 | 2023 | 2024 |
| 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... |
Kimi is Moonshot AI's consumer front-end for the open-weight K-series models, and in 2026 it's no longer a China-only story: kimi.com, the Kimi Code CLI and an English API platform give it a real international footprint,... |
Yuanbao is Tencent's consumer AI assistant app, notable for offering both its own Hunyuan models and DeepSeek under one roof, with deep WeChat integration that lets it search and reason over Tencent ecosystem content. It... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.