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AssistantByteDance

Doubao

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

Category
Assistant
Pricing
FREE
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 and is the most-used AI chatbot in China.

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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