Tiangong 天工 (formerly Tiangong AI Search) vs Metaso 秘塔AI搜索

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Tiangong 天工 (formerly Tiangong AI Search) Kunlun's former AI search engine, now the 天工 SkyClaw agent workspace Visit Metaso 秘塔AI搜索 Ad-free Chinese AI search with cited answers and an academic mode Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.7 / 10 7.3 / 10
Capability 7 7
Value for money 7 8
Ease of use 7 8
ASEAN readiness 5 5
API quality n/a 6
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier Free to download and use; paid Basic/Plus/Ultra memberships and credit packs sold in-app Web, academic, image, video and podcast search with no ads, and research mode free after sign-in
Paid from Basic ¥45/month (iOS auto-renew); Plus ¥85; Ultra ¥188 ¥10.80 for 1,000 H3 video credits, search API billed in points (¥0.03 per query at launch)
Has API ✗ ✓
Open source ✗ ✗
Free to use ✓ ✓
Users — —
Founded 2023 2024
Maker Kunlun Tech (昆仑万维科技股份有限公司) Shanghai Metaso Network Technology (上海秘塔网络科技有限公司)
Verdict

Tiangong AI Search no longer exists as a search product: Kunlun has turned it into the 天工 SkyClaw office-agent workspace, closely tied to Skywork. As an agent workspace it is free to start and inexpensive to upgrade, b...

Metaso does the core job of an AI search engine well and without advertising: answers are structured and cited, the academic scope reaches Chinese and English libraries and PubMed, and the research mode is free once sign...

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