Alternatives to Doubao
ByteDance's AI chat assistant for questions, writing, translation, coding and video generation. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Doubao
ByteDance's AI chat assistant for questions, writing, translation, coding and video generation.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Doubao.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.
ChatGPT covers writing, coding, analysis and images from OpenAI's servers, with features and limits varying by plan instead of Doubao's free use and Chinese-language focus.
DeepSeek
A web chat assistant from Chinese developer DeepSeek, known for strong coding ability.
DeepSeek is another China-based web chat assistant with a free tier, known for strong coding help, but it does not list video generation.
Qwen Studio
Alibaba's AI chat assistant built on its Qwen family of language models.
Qwen Studio is Alibaba's free chat assistant on its own Qwen models, with an official mobile app, while conversations are processed on Alibaba's servers instead of ByteDance's.
Kimi
Moonshot AI's chat assistant for long documents, research, coding and slide creation, powered by Kimi models.
Kimi from Moonshot AI focuses on long documents, research and agent tasks for coding and slides, with a freemium plan instead of Doubao's free service.
Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant, formerly Bard, integrated with other Google services.
Google Gemini is a multimodal assistant integrated with Google services, processed on Google's servers, and is most useful to people already using the Google ecosystem.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window.
Claude is Anthropic's assistant with a large context window for long documents and an Artifacts panel, with a free tier that has usage limits.
Z.ai Chat
A web chat assistant from Zhipu AI that runs on its GLM language models.
Z.ai Chat is a free web assistant from Zhipu AI on its GLM models, handling coding and website building plus an agent mode for multi-step tasks.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI chat assistant for conversation, answers from the web and creative tasks.
Microsoft Copilot is a browser-based assistant whose answers can draw on the web, with features varying by plan and region and conversations processed on Microsoft's servers.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
QQ Browser
Tencent's Chinese-language web browser with a built-in Yuanbao AI assistant, split-screen browsing and file tools.
Hailuo AI
MiniMax's web app for creating AI videos and images from text prompts or photos.
Poe
A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place.
HuggingChat
Hugging Face's chat app for talking to a choice of hosted open-source AI models.
