Doubao

Overview

Key Features

• •Consumer search, Work Tasks and deep-research reports documented by the developer
• •Presentation, document and spreadsheet workflows; generated/edited work files can be stored in cloud drive
• •Text, voice, image and file inputs; text/voice replies and image/music/video creation described in the policy
• •Basic free access plus Standard, Enhanced and Advanced Professional memberships
• •China iOS directory distinguishes auto-renewing monthly, one-month and annual purchases
• •Personal-account training opt-out in Privacy and permissions settings

Use Cases

• →Consumer search with checks against the linked third-party sources
• →Document, presentation and spreadsheet tasks after confirming the chosen plan’s formats and allowance
• →Exploring research reports while checking source coverage, disagreements and the eventual deliverable

Frequently Asked Questions

Key facts and where they come from

PriceDocumented

China App Store listing establishes app distribution, not service-region eligibility or a per-tier file allowance for this task. Historical registered scope read on 2026-10-12, not rechecked in full on 2026-10-15: Read on 12 October 2026. Documents Work Tasks, research and PPT/document/spreadsheet work. The in-app purchase list shows Standard monthly CNY 68 / one month 80 / annual 688, Enhanced monthly 200, Advanced monthly 500, and a ¥99 creation pack with no stated allowance; the developer subscription note on the same page also lists Enhanced annual 2,048 and Professional annual 5,088. The list itself still has no Advanced annual item. The Enhanced one-month 240 and Advanced one-month 599 recorded on 2026-09-23 were not on the page as read today.Source: Doubao China iOS developer listing and purchases

AvailabilityNot established

Which regions and platforms can reach the consumer service is not established: the pages we read are a China iOS listing and a policy that notes platform and version differences, not a distribution or reachability statement.Source: Doubao China iOS developer listing and purchases · Doubao personal privacy policy, September 2026

Commercial useDocumented

The consumer terms state that output must not be used as professional advice or for commercial purposes; separate enterprise agreements can prevail over the consumer terms. This is not a paid-consumer commercial licence.Source: Doubao user agreement - licence scope and source boundaries

Training on your dataDocumented

Updated September 10, effective September 17: multimodal/file/work-task processing and cloud-drive outputs; platform differences; de-identified personal content may train models with a settings opt-out. Domestic-operation personal data is stored in China. Historical scope read on 2026-10-14, not rechecked in full on 2026-10-15: Clause 9.2 states that what a personal-version user uploads or publishes belongs to them, while licensing the company and its affiliates a free, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable right to use that content, for example for model-service optimisation and brand promotion.Source: Doubao personal privacy policy, September 2026 · Doubao user agreement - licence scope and source boundaries

API billingNot established

Volcengine Ark is a separate developer-model service; this review did not establish its complete current API price table, and its features are not evidence about the consumer app.Source: Volcengine Ark developer service — price scope unverified

Export formatsNot established

No downloadable export format is established: the user agreement describes the AI cloud drive storing generated documents, slides, spreadsheets and transcriptions, and the paid-service agreement defers rights and prices to the product and checkout pages instead of promising a particular export.Source: Doubao user agreement - licence scope and source boundaries · Doubao Professional paid-service agreement

Usage limitsNot established

Plan-specific research allowances and file capacity are not established: the paid-service agreement names Standard, Enhanced and Advanced memberships but leaves rights and prices to the product and checkout pages, and promises neither unlimited research nor every export format.Source: Doubao Professional paid-service agreement

Official sources

The vendor pages we read for the claims on this page, what each one states, and the day we read it.

• Doubao consumer web entry ↗

  Consumer assistant entry, distinct from enterprise services and Volcengine Ark APIs. No login or ten-PDF workflow was tested.

  Read on September 23, 2026

• Doubao user agreement - licence scope and source boundaries ↗

  Historical registered scope from 2026-10-14; the entire statement was not re-read on 2026-10-15: Read again on 14 October 2026. Updated 10 September 2026, effective 17 September 2026. Clause 2.10 grants a "personal, revocable, non-transferable, non-exclusive and non-commercial" licence to use the software and services, and clause 2.2 requires that generated output is not used as professional advice, for commercial use or for other purposes. Clause 9.1 states that, as between the user and the company, the input's intellectual property belongs to the user or its rights holder, that the company does not claim ownership of the output, and that content in which the company holds rights stays with the company. Clause 9.2 states that what a personal-version user uploads or publishes belongs to them, while licensing the company and its affiliates a free, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable right to use that content, for example for model-service optimisation and brand promotion. Clause 2.4 describes the AI cloud drive storing generated documents, slides, spreadsheets and transcriptions plus files uploaded in a conversation. On search, the agreement states that the linked source pages are made and provided by third parties and that a labelled source still does not guarantee the output is accurate. The page names no region and no per-plan entitlement. Official body read on 2026-10-15, limited to this scope: Terms describe web, apps, browser extensions, mini-programs, SDK/API. The principal audience is adults, but under18 users may use with guardian consent. Output must not be used as professional advice or for commercial purposes; separate enterprise agreements can prevail. The consumer terms state that output must not be used as professional advice or for commercial purposes; separate enterprise agreements can prevail over the consumer terms. This is not a paid-consumer commercial licence. Historical scope read on 2026-10-14, not rechecked in full on 2026-10-15: Clause 9.2 states that what a personal-version user uploads or publishes belongs to them, while licensing the company and its affiliates a free, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable right to use that content, for example for model-service optimisation and brand promotion.

  Read on October 15, 2026

• Doubao personal privacy policy, September 2026 ↗

  Domestic-operation personal information is stored in mainland China; storage location does not establish service eligibility. Historical registered scope read on 2026-10-12, not rechecked in full on 2026-10-15: Updated September 10, effective September 17: multimodal/file/work-task processing and cloud-drive outputs; platform differences; de-identified personal content may train models with a settings opt-out. Domestic-operation personal data is stored in China.

  Read on October 15, 2026

• Doubao China iOS developer listing and purchases ↗

  China App Store listing establishes app distribution, not service-region eligibility or a per-tier file allowance for this task. Historical registered scope read on 2026-10-12, not rechecked in full on 2026-10-15: Read on 12 October 2026. Documents Work Tasks, research and PPT/document/spreadsheet work. The in-app purchase list shows Standard monthly CNY 68 / one month 80 / annual 688, Enhanced monthly 200, Advanced monthly 500, and a ¥99 creation pack with no stated allowance; the developer subscription note on the same page also lists Enhanced annual 2,048 and Professional annual 5,088. The list itself still has no Advanced annual item. The Enhanced one-month 240 and Advanced one-month 599 recorded on 2026-09-23 were not on the page as read today.

  Read on October 15, 2026

• Doubao Professional paid-service agreement ↗

  May 20, 2026 agreement names Standard, Enhanced and Advanced memberships; rights/prices depend on product and checkout pages, not a promise of unlimited research or every export format.

  Read on September 23, 2026

• Volcengine Ark developer service — price scope unverified ↗

  Separate developer-model service; dynamic body was not fully readable, so this review did not establish a complete current API price table or transfer API features to the consumer app.

  Read on September 23, 2026

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