Quark AI 夸克AI vs Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance) vs Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝 vs Nano AI (纳米AI, formerly 360 AI Search)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Quark AI 夸克AI
Alibaba's Qwen-powered search, browser and cloud-drive app for China
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Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's China-first AI assistant, free for daily use with paid pow...
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Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
Tencent's free consumer AI assistant, tied into WeChat
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Nano AI (纳米AI, formerly 360 AI Search)
Qihoo 360's AI search turned multi-agent app, now branded 纳米AI
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 | 5.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Free | Freemium |
| Free tier | AI search, the 千问 assistant, AI browser, scanner and PDF tools are free to use with a Quark account | Free consumer app: chat, search, writing, image generation and voice and video calls; expert and Office Task modes carry smaller quotas than paid tiers | Free on web, mobile and inside WeChat; Tencent publishes no consumer paid plan or usage limits | Free AI search, agents and model chat; VIP adds monthly 纳米 credits for image/video generation, 1080p video and unlimited file analysis |
| Paid from | ¥25/month 夸克网盘 SVIP on auto-renewal (App Store), ¥300/year list | ¥68/month (专业版 Standard, or ¥688/year); API from $0.075 per M input tokens on BytePlus | — | VIP from ¥49/mo (China App Store), US$6.99/mo in the US store |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~150 million monthly active users (March 2025) — China's most-used AI application. | Surpassed 100 million daily active users by late 2025 | ~57 million MAU (March 2026), 4th in China behind Doubao, Qianwen, and DeepSeek | — |
| Founded | 2016 | 2023 | 2024 | 2024 |
| Maker | Alibaba Group | ByteDance | Tencent Holdings | Qihoo 360 |
| Verdict | Quark is a capable, mostly free Qwen-powered everything-app for Chinese students and office workers: AI search, a desktop AI browser that summarises and compares tabs, PPT and PDF tools, a scanner and a large cloud drive... |
Doubao is the default AI assistant for Chinese-language users: QuestMobile puts it far ahead of Qwen and DeepSeek, everyday features are free, and the June 2026 Professional tiers (¥68 to ¥500 a month) add an agent mode... |
Yuanbao's strength is distribution: it sits next to WeChat, reads Official Account articles and summarises chat histories, and since July 2026 runs on Tencent's own Hy3 model with a free agent that produces slides, docum... |
Nano AI is Qihoo 360's former 360 AI Search, now a Chinese-language search-and-agent app that answers questions from the web and can build reports, slide decks, images and short videos, with about sixteen domestic models... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.