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Doubao

ByteDance's free AI assistant for chat, writing, and documents.

Category
Assistant
Pricing
FREE
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebiOSAndroid
Models
Single model (proprietary)
Verified
Jun 11, 2026

Doubao (豆包) is ByteDance's consumer AI assistant for everyday Q&A, content creation, document processing, translation, coding help, and multimodal interaction. Core features — dialogue, basic creation, document summarization, and translation — are free with no ads or paywalls. It runs on ByteDance's own Doubao models.

Capabilities 6

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Code generation (secondary capability)
  • Chat with documents (primary capability)
  • Music generation (secondary capability)
  • Text-to-image (secondary capability)
  • Summarization (secondary capability)
  • Translation (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Completely free, no ads
  • 100M+ daily active users
  • Strong Chinese-language support
  • Document, coding, and multimodal tools
  • Primarily China-focused
  • Interface mostly in Chinese
  • Runs only on ByteDance models
  • Data subject to China jurisdiction

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