Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM) vs Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance) vs Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝 vs Kimi 月之暗面
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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Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
Tencent's consumer-facing AI assistant app
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Kimi 月之暗面
Long-context chat assistant from Moonshot AI
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free | Free | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | Free consumer tier; Doubao 1.5 Pro API ≈ $0.11 per million input tokens and ≈ $0.28 per million | Free to use within the WeChat ecosystem; no published consumer subscription tier | API from $0.95/$4.00 per M tokens (input/output; OpenRouter ~$0.75/$3.50); free web tier |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Surpassed 100 million daily active users by late 2025 | ~57 million MAU (March 2026), 4th in China behind Doubao, Qianwen, and DeepSeek | 36M+ MAU (as of late 2024) |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 | 2024 | 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... |
Yuanbao is Tencent's consumer AI assistant app, notable for offering both its own Hunyuan models and DeepSeek under one roof, with deep WeChat integration that lets it search and reason over Tencent ecosystem content. It... |
Kimi is Moonshot AI's consumer front-end for the open-weight K-series models, and in 2026 it's no longer a China-only story: kimi.com, the Kimi Code CLI and an English API platform give it a real international footprint,... |
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