Ernie Bot 文心一言 (Baidu) vs Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Ernie Bot 文心一言 (Baidu)
Baidu's ERNIE-powered assistant for chat, writing, painting and search...
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Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's flagship consumer AI assistant
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | — | — |
| 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 | ~200 million monthly active users (2026) | Surpassed 100 million daily active users by late 2025 |
| Founded | — | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | As Baidu's flagship assistant, Ernie Bot benefits from deep integration with Baidu Search and the wider Baidu ecosystem, and it's genuinely competitive: ERNIE 5.1 landed #1 among Chinese models and top-5 globally on LMAr... |
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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