Doubao
ByteDance's assistant, bundled across its apps and priced aggressively on Volcano Engine.
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Doubao vs ERNIE Bot
Doubao (ByteDance) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (25 vs 4). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Doubao ByteDance | ERNIE Bot Baidu |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Seedance 2.5 | 5.0-thinking-preview |
| Entry cost | Pricing varies by model (pay-as-you-go API). Refer to the Volcano Ark pricing console. | Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on tokens. Token Plan Personal Edition and some free trials available. |
| Pricing tiers | App free · Volcano Engine API free | Token Plan Personal Edition / Pay-as-you-go free |
| Model stack | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · Doubao 1.8 Pro · Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro · Seed-Evolving Agent · Seedream | DeepSeek-V3.1 · ERNIE 4.5 (open weights) · ERNIE 4.5 Turbo · ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL · ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B · ERNIE 5.0 · ERNIE X1.1 Preview · ernie-4.5-turbo-128k · ERNIE-5.0-Thinking-Preview |
| Context window | 256K tokens | 119k |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 4 | 25 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Voice mode, Image generation, Real-time camera, Browser extension, Long docs, Text Generation, Video Generation, Image Generation | Multimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR |
ERNIE Bot
Baidu's assistant (Wenxin Yiyan), backed by the ERNIE model line and integrated into Baidu Search.
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