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.
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 | 7.7 / 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 | — | Surpassed 100 million daily active users by late 2025 |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
| Maker | Zhipu AI (Z.ai) | — |
| Verdict | 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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