Quark AI 夸克AI vs Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance) vs Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝 vs 360 AI Search 360AI搜索
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Quark AI 夸克AI
Alibaba's AI-powered search and study assistant
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Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's flagship consumer AI assistant
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Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
Tencent's consumer-facing AI assistant app
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360 AI Search 360AI搜索
Qihoo 360's AI-powered search engine
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 | 5.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | Free core AI search and key productivity tools | Free consumer tier; Doubao 1.5 Pro API ≈ $0.11 per million input tokens and ≈ $0.28 per million | Free to use within the WeChat ecosystem; no published consumer subscription tier | — |
| 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 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
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... |
360 AI Search is Qihoo 360's AI-powered answer engine, blending web search with generative summaries primarily for the Chinese market. For Mandarin-language research and China-domestic queries it is fast and competitive... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.