Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance) vs Quark AI 夸克AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's China-first AI assistant, free for daily use with paid pow...
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Quark AI 夸克AI
Alibaba's Qwen-powered search, browser and cloud-drive app for China
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free consumer app: chat, search, writing, image generation and voice and video calls; expert and Office Task modes carry smaller quotas than paid tiers | AI search, the 千问 assistant, AI browser, scanner and PDF tools are free to use with a Quark account |
| Paid from | ¥68/month (专业版 Standard, or ¥688/year); API from $0.075 per M input tokens on BytePlus | ¥25/month 夸克网盘 SVIP on auto-renewal (App Store), ¥300/year list |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Surpassed 100 million daily active users by late 2025 | ~150 million monthly active users (March 2025) — China's most-used AI application. |
| Founded | 2023 | 2016 |
| Maker | ByteDance | Alibaba Group |
| Verdict | Doubao is the default AI assistant for Chinese-language users: QuestMobile puts it far ahead of Qwen and DeepSeek, everyday features are free, and the June 2026 Professional tiers (¥68 to ¥500 a month) add an agent mode... |
Quark is a capable, mostly free Qwen-powered everything-app for Chinese students and office workers: AI search, a desktop AI browser that summarises and compares tabs, PPT and PDF tools, a scanner and a large cloud drive... |
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