Paying for Doubao Pro: A Hands-On Test of ByteDance's 200 RMB/Month GUI Agent
卡尔的AI沃茨 · wechat · 2026-08-19
When Doubao's paid plans leaked three months ago, 97% of 91,000 poll voters refused to pay. The author now pays 200 RMB/month to test the Doubao Pro enhanced plan, concluding its GUI agent capability can partially replace Codex, aided by its 1M-token context.
Test cases: one prompt to crawl and curate the DeepSeekHarness plugin ecosystem (120k+ GitHub stars in 3 days) into a 59-plugin leaderboard, with development and PR merging done by Doubao; secondary development of a skin plugin; reformatting a broken Word doc into deliverable PDF/Docs; phone-remote-controlling Mac/Win machines across 6 linked devices with stable handoff, plus a reusable analyst→UI→PPT workflow; finally playing 2048 to 512 purely via mouse/keyboard with API access banned.
Also notes seedance 2.5 video generation consumes plan quota, praises a YingShiJuFeng video-script skill, and cites QuestMobile's 382M MAU making Doubao China's #1 AI-native app, arguing paid plans are how the product loop closes.
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