Doubao Image 豆包图像 (Seedream) vs Wenxin Assistant 文心助手 (formerly Ernie Bot)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Doubao Image 豆包图像 (Seedream)
ByteDance's Seedream image generation inside the Doubao app
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Wenxin Assistant 文心助手 (formerly Ernie Bot)
Baidu's free ERNIE-powered assistant, which absorbed the Ernie Bot sit...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.3 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Image creation and editing free in the Doubao app (region-gated outside mainland China); paid Pro plans add quota | Wenxin Assistant is free for individuals; Baidu says all of its features are free, with no paid tier |
| Paid from | Seedream API from $0.018/image (BytePlus); Doubao Pro from ¥68/month | ¥4 per million input tokens (ERNIE 5.1 on Qianfan, prompts up to 32K) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | ~200 million monthly active users (2026) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | ByteDance | Baidu, Inc. |
| Verdict | Doubao's image creation runs on ByteDance's Seedream models and is especially good at Chinese prompts and Chinese text inside images. Basic use is free in the app, and the API is cheap: BytePlus lists Seedream 5.0 Flash... |
Wenxin Assistant gives individuals free access to Baidu's current ERNIE models with search built in, and Task Engine 2.0 makes it more of an agent than a chatbot. ERNIE 5.0 and 5.1 have ranked first among Chinese models... |
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