Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝 vs Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
Tencent's consumer-facing AI assistant app
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Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's flagship consumer AI assistant
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.3 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Free | Free |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | Free to use within the WeChat ecosystem; no published consumer subscription tier | 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 | ~57 million MAU (March 2026), 4th in China behind Doubao, Qianwen, and DeepSeek | Surpassed 100 million daily active users by late 2025 |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
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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