Wanzhi 万知 (01.AI 零一万物) vs Yi Model vs Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM) vs Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Wanzhi 万知 (01.AI 零一万物)
01.AI's pivot from free Copilot clone to enterprise agent platform
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Yi Model
01.AI's Yi model family — frontier development paused, company pivoted...
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Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM)
GLM-powered chat assistant with a fast-growing global coding API
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Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's flagship consumer AI assistant
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.2 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 7.7 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | — | Free to download | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | — | 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 | — | 500k+ downloads | — | Surpassed 100 million daily active users by late 2025 |
| Founded | — | — | 2019 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | 01.AI | Zhipu AI (Z.ai) | — |
| Verdict | Wanzhi launched in 2024 as a free, Copilot-style assistant for document reading, writing and meeting notes, riding on 01.AI's Yi models and Kai-Fu Lee's profile. That consumer product is still live and free via web and W... |
Yi is the LLM family from 01.AI, offered as open weights with notably strong bilingual Chinese-English performance that made it one of the more respected open-model lineages of 2023–24. For teams needing solid Chinese-la... |
Zhipu is one of the few Chinese labs treating its international API seriously rather than as an afterthought: GLM-5.2 shipped in June 2026 as a 744B-parameter MoE model with a genuinely usable 1M-token context, open-sour... |
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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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.