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 (15 vs 8). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Doubao ByteDance | ERNIE Bot Baidu |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Doubao Seedance 2.5 | 5.0 |
| Entry cost | Pricing varies by model. Paid API usage billed via Volcengine. | Pay-as-you-go API pricing with select free trial skills/components. Ernie 5.0 at 0.006-0.01 RMB per 1k input tokens. |
| Pricing tiers | App free · Volcano Engine API free | Pay-as-you-go API free |
| Model stack | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro / flash · Seed-Evolving | 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 | 8 | 15 |
| 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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