Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance)
ByteDance's flagship consumer AI assistant
Overview
Doubao is ByteDance's consumer-facing AI assistant — chat, voice, image generation, real-time translation — backed by ByteDance's own Doubao LLM family. One of the most-downloaded AI apps in China by user count, with deep integration into Douyin (Chinese TikTok) and other ByteDance properties. API access via Volcano Engine (火山方舟).
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豆包是字节跳动旗下面向 C 端的 AI 助手，覆盖对话、语音、图像生成和实时翻译，由字节自研豆包大模型矩阵驱动。是中国市场用户量最高的 AI 应用之一，并与抖音、剪映等字节系产品深度整合。企业 API 通过火山方舟（Volcano Engine）开放。
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 19 May 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
Doubao 豆包 (ByteDance) in Southeast Asia
依托字节系流量（抖音、今日头条）的中国市场最大 C 端 AI 助手之一，DAU 据传持续领跑国产 AI App 榜单。
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 aggressively cheap, and the broader ecosystem (image/video via Seedream/Seedance) is competitive. For Chinese-language work and China-market use cases it is a serious tool.
For ASEAN and global users the access story is awkward. The consumer Doubao app is effectively mainland-only (Chinese phone number needed); ByteDance's international assistant is a separate, rebranded app (Cici→Dola) with patchy country coverage and major-market exclusions. Developers fare better via the Volcano Engine international API, which accepts email signup and USD billing. Capable and cheap, but the consumer product is not realistically usable region-wide — the API is the practical entry point.
About this listing
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