Quark AI 夸克AI vs Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Quark AI 夸克AI
Alibaba's Qwen-powered search, browser and cloud-drive app for China
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Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
Tencent's free consumer AI assistant, tied into WeChat
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | AI search, the 千问 assistant, AI browser, scanner and PDF tools are free to use with a Quark account | Free on web, mobile and inside WeChat; Tencent publishes no consumer paid plan or usage limits |
| Paid from | ¥25/month 夸克网盘 SVIP on auto-renewal (App Store), ¥300/year list | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~150 million monthly active users (March 2025) — China's most-used AI application. | ~57 million MAU (March 2026), 4th in China behind Doubao, Qianwen, and DeepSeek |
| Founded | 2016 | 2024 |
| Maker | Alibaba Group | Tencent Holdings |
| Verdict | 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... |
Yuanbao's strength is distribution: it sits next to WeChat, reads Official Account articles and summarises chat histories, and since July 2026 runs on Tencent's own Hy3 model with a free agent that produces slides, docum... |
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