B

ByteDance

Application

Chinese technology group behind TikTok, Douyin, CapCut and Lark, and a builder of its own frontier models (the Seed family: Doubao, Seedance, Seedream). Sells AI directly through the Doubao assistant, the Dreamina creative platform, the Coze agent platform and the TRAE coding and work tools; its cloud arm, Volcano Engine (BytePlus outside China), sells the models to businesses under its own brand.

Subsidiary: Volcano Engine

Total funding—

Valuation—

Employees150,000

Founded2012

HeadquartersBeijing, China

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Dreamina Application Sold on its own

  AI image and video generation platform built around Seedance (video, up to 30-second 4K generations with audio) and Seedream (image) models, with style transfer, an AI photo editor, and a direct export path into CapCut's own cloud editor for CapCut/TikTok-ready cuts.

• Doubao (豆包) Application Sold on its own

  ByteDance's consumer AI assistant for China -- chat, writing, translation and programming help, with Seedance video generation built into the app.

• Coze Agent platform Sold on its own

  No-code platform for building AI agents and workflows from models, plugins and knowledge, then publishing them to chat channels or into other software through web SDKs and APIs.

• Coze Studio Agent platform Sold on its own

  Open-source, self-hostable edition of Coze's agent development environment -- visual tools for building, debugging and deploying AI agents and workflows, released under Apache 2.0.

• Coze Loop Platform Sold on its own

  Prompt development, evaluation and tracing platform for AI agents -- versioned prompt debugging, evaluator-driven experiments and end-to-end observability -- published as an open-source edition of the hosted 扣子罗盘.

• TraeCode Developer tool Sold on its own

  AI coding environment from TRAE with an IDE mode that brings agents into ordinary editing and a SOLO mode in which an autonomous agent plans, writes and deploys code, plus custom sub-agents, MCP tools and next-edit autocomplete.

• TraeWork Application Sold on its own

  AI work assistant from TRAE that breaks a request into tasks and runs them in the cloud to produce slides, data analyses, research write-ups, documents and small apps, on desktop, web and mobile.

Closest alternatives 3

RRunwayPrivate · $5.3BByteDance's own Dreamina comparison page.5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorCreate images and videoCompareKKuaishouPublic · $18.6BSame page naming Kling.6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorCreate images and videoCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TSame Dreamina page naming Google's Veo.12 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorCreate images and videoCompare

Similar products 147

How this list is ranked ↗

HHiggsfieldPrivate · $1.3BDreamina and Higgsfield do comparable work on image editing, image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to copy an image or video's look and create images and video; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCognitionPrivate · $26BTraeCode and Devin Desktop do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHAHalo AIPrivateDreamina and Halo AI do comparable work on image editing, image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; scale not recorded for either.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKreaPrivate · $83M raisedDreamina and Krea do comparable work on image editing, image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; ByteDance's scale not recorded.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRReplitPrivate · $9BTraeCode and Replit do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSAPPublic · $256.3BTraeCode and SAP Joule for Developers do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded.6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TCoze Loop and Observability in Foundry Control Plane both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; larger scale (public).9 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePAPoolside AIPrivate · $620M raisedTraeCode and poolside do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKKakaoPublic · $16BOverlaps on agent orchestration, image generation, text generation and 1 more; smaller scale (public).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGitLabPublic · $8.3BTraeCode and GitLab Duo Code Suggestions do comparable work on code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (public).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZ.ai (Zhipu AI)Public · $58.6BTraeCode and GLM Coding Plan do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (public).10 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareJJetBrainsPrivateTraeCode and JetBrains AI do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSServiceNowPublic · $130.1BTraeCode and Build Agent do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded.7 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCClinePrivate · $32M raisedTraeCode and Cline do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAApplePublic · $4.6TDoubao (豆包) and Apple Intelligence do comparable work on translation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLeonardo.AiAcquired ($31M deal)Dreamina and Leonardo AI do comparable work on image editing, image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Leonardo.Ai is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAmazonPublic · $2.8TTraeCode and Kiro do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; larger scale (public).7 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDD-IDPrivateDreamina and Creative Reality Studio do comparable work on avatar video and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHOHour OnePrivateDreamina and Reals do comparable work on avatar video and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCanvaPrivate · $42BDreamina and Dream Lab do comparable work on image editing and image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).9 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVercelPrivate · $9.3BTraeCode and v0 do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSStackBlitzPrivateTraeCode and Bolt.new do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareYYandexPublicTraeCode and SourceCraft Code Assistant do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.7 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFigmaPublic · $14.4BDreamina and Figma Weave do comparable work on image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (public).6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIBMPublic · $216.6BOverlaps on agent orchestration, agentic coding, code generation and 4 more; ByteDance's scale not recorded.7 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)TraeCode and Grok Build do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCursorAcquired ($60B deal)TraeCode and Cursor do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Cursor is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAdobePublic · $115.9BDreamina and Adobe Firefly do comparable work on image editing, image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; ByteDance's scale not recorded.8 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAccenturePublic · $111BOverlaps on agent orchestration, agentic coding, code generation and 2 more; ByteDance's scale not recorded.5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEEmergentPrivate · $1.5BTraeCode and Emergent do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePLPika LabsPrivate · $470MDreamina and Pika AI Trendmaker do comparable work on image editing and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNeuralGaragePrivate · $1.5M raisedDreamina and VisualDub do comparable work on avatar video and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; ByteDance's scale not recorded.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCaptionsPrivate · $500MDreamina and AI Twin do comparable work on avatar video and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHeyGenPrivate · $500MDoubao (豆包) and HeyGen Video Translator do comparable work on translation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenCodePrivateTraeCode and OpenCode do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareEElevenLabsPrivate · $11BDreamina and Image to Video AI Conversion do comparable work on image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAArtisse AIPrivate · $6.7M raisedDreamina and Artisse do comparable work on image editing and image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; ByteDance's scale not recorded.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMidjourneyPrivate · $0 raisedDreamina and Midjourney do comparable work on image editing and image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRecraftPrivate · $42M raisedDreamina and Recraft do comparable work on image editing and image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; ByteDance's scale not recorded.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAnthropicPrivate · $965BTraeCode and Claude Agent SDK do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; larger scale (private).7 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLLuma LabsPrivate · $3.9BDreamina and Luma Agents do comparable work on image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFreshworksPublic · $3.4BTraeCode and Freddy AI Copilot for Developers do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (public).7 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLightricksPrivate · $335M raisedDreamina and Photoleap do comparable work on image editing and image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; ByteDance's scale not recorded.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZoomPublic · $28.7BTraeWork and Zoom Slides do comparable work on presentation generation; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).7 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLovablePrivate · $13.3BTraeCode and Lovable do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPhotoroomPrivate · $500MDreamina and Photoroom AI Fashion Models do comparable work on image editing and image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenAIPrivate · $852BTraeCode and Codex do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; larger scale (private).9 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSynthesiaPrivate · $4BDreamina and Synthesia do comparable work on avatar video and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAHAll Hands AIPrivate · $23.8M raisedTraeCode and OpenHands do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAFAmp Frontier CorporationPrivateTraeCode and Amp do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFFactoryPrivate · $5BTraeCode and Factory Droids do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private); ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAnacondaPrivateTraeCode and Anaconda Assistant do comparable work on code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQQodoPrivate · $50M raisedTraeCode and Qodo: AI Code Review (VS Code) do comparable work on code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSonarPrivate · $4.7BTraeCode and SonarQube do comparable work on agentic coding; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTypefacePrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, image generation and workflow automation; scale not recorded for either.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTricentisPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGammaPrivate · $2.1BTraeWork and Gamma do comparable work on presentation generation; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (private).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGreptilePrivateTraeCode and TREX do comparable work on agentic coding; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGensparkPrivate · $645M raisedTraeCode and GenTerminal do comparable work on agentic coding; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded.7 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCodeRabbitPrivate · $1.5BTraeCode and CodeRabbit do comparable work on code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPegasystemsPublic · $6.1BOverlaps on agent orchestration, code generation, data analysis and 1 more; smaller scale (public).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSShopifyPublic · $196.7BTraeCode and Shopify AI Toolkit do comparable work on agentic coding; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded.4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareACAugment CodePrivateTraeCode and Cosmos do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIImbuePrivate · $232M raisedTraeCode and Sculptor do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTBThe Browser CompanyPrivateTraeWork and Dia do comparable work on presentation generation; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCColossyanPrivateDreamina and Cora do comparable work on avatar video and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRoomotePrivateTraeCode and Roomote do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBBridgeMindPrivateTraeCode and BridgeMind do comparable work on agentic coding; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKlaviyoPublic · $5.5BDreamina and Klaviyo Image Remix do comparable work on image editing and image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (public).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIInVideoPrivate · $52.5M raisedDoubao (豆包) and invideo AI do comparable work on video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; ByteDance's scale not recorded.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKCKilo CodeAcquiredTraeCode and Kilo Code do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Kilo Code is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareJJasperPrivateDoubao (豆包) and Jasper both serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; scale not recorded for either.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMPMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TTraeCode and Muse Code do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; larger scale (public).6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BTraeCode and Baidu Comate do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (public).6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUiPathPublic · $7.2BOverlaps on agent orchestration, agentic coding, data analysis and 1 more; smaller scale (public).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIdeogramPrivateDreamina and Ideogram 4.0 do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; scale not recorded for either.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSiemensPublic · $244.7BTraeCode and Industrial Copilot do comparable work on code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded.5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGitarAcquiredTraeCode and Gitar do comparable work on agentic coding; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Gitar is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMMetaGPTPrivateTraeCode and Atoms do comparable work on code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLSLM StudioPrivateDoubao (豆包) and LM Studio both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatadogPublic · $84.9BOverlaps on agent orchestration, agentic coding, code generation and 3 more; smaller scale (public).6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHCHuawei CloudPrivateTraeCode and CodeArts Agent do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepLPrivate · $2BDoubao (豆包) and DeepL Customization Hub do comparable work on translation; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKrispPrivateDoubao (豆包) and Krisp Voice Translation do comparable work on translation; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBABlackbox AIPrivateTraeCode and Blackbox AI do comparable work on agentic coding; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSlackPrivateDoubao (豆包) and Slack AI do comparable work on translation; scale not recorded for either.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCMComet MLPrivate · $70M raisedCoze Loop and Opik both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ByteDance's scale not recorded.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BTraeCode and CodeBuddy do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; larger scale (public).5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSourcegraphPrivate · $2.6BTraeCode and Sourcegraph Code Search both serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUnbabelAcquired ($91.2M deal)Doubao (豆包) and Unbabel MT Score do comparable work on translation; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Unbabel is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BDoubao (豆包) and Quark do comparable work on translation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; ByteDance's scale not recorded.6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMiniMaxPublic · $12.6BDoubao (豆包) and Hailuo AI do comparable work on video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (public).6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZapierPrivate · $5BOverlaps on agent orchestration, code generation, text generation and 1 more; smaller scale (private).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BTraeCode and Mistral Vibe Code do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMoonshot AIPrivate · $35BTraeCode and Kimi Code do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPictoryPrivateDreamina and Pictory AI Studio do comparable work on video generation; scale not recorded for either.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFramerPrivateDoubao (豆包) and Framer AI do comparable work on code generation; scale not recorded for either.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSmartsheetPrivate · $8.4BDoubao (豆包) and Smartsheet AI do comparable work on translation; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepSeekPrivate · $50BTraeCode and DeepSeek Harness do comparable work on agentic coding; smaller scale (private).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBFBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BDreamina and Playground do comparable work on image editing and image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenRouterPrivate · $1.3BTraeCode and Ori do comparable work on agentic coding; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIntelPublic · $463.7BDoubao (豆包) and Intel AI Playground do comparable work on video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSnowflakePublic · $116BTraeCode and Snowflake CoCo do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded.6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareITInvisible TechnologiesPrivate · $144M raisedOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, evaluation and observability and 1 more; ByteDance's scale not recorded.4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLindyPrivateTraeWork and Lindy do comparable work on presentation generation; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.3 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAutoGPTPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRARelevance AIPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRReflectionPrivate · $27.5BTraeCode and Asimov do comparable work on agentic coding; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAutomation AnywherePrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, code generation, data analysis and 2 more; scale not recorded for either.5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCClickHousePrivate · $1.1B raisedCoze Loop and ClickStack both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ByteDance's scale not recorded.4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSESamsung ElectronicsPublic · $1.2TDoubao (豆包) and Galaxy AI do comparable work on translation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBase44AcquiredTraeCode and Base44 do comparable work on code generation; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Base44 is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMManusPrivateTraeWork and Manus do comparable work on presentation generation; smaller scale (private); ships AI agent rather than the same layer.3 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSAStability AIPrivate · $495.9MDreamina and Brand Studio do comparable work on image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIInception42PrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, text generation and 1 more; scale not recorded for either.4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BTraeWork and Office Raccoon (RaccoonWork) both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).6 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDXPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, evaluation and observability and 1 more; scale not recorded for either.4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDataikuPrivate · $3.7BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, evaluation and observability and 1 more; smaller scale (private).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatabricksPrivate · $190BCoze Loop and Agent Bricks both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ByteDance's scale not recorded.5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHaptikAcquired ($112M deal)Coze Loop and Haptik Agent Analytics both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Haptik is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNiCEPublic · $6.5BCoze Loop and NiCE Quality Management both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; smaller scale (public).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMmonday.comPublic · $3.9BOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; smaller scale (public).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCognigyAcquiredCoze Loop and Cognigy AI Ops Center both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Cognigy is acquired, with no independent scale.4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareYYellow.aiPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis and evaluation and observability; scale not recorded for either.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCAContextual AIPrivate · $100M raisedOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; ByteDance's scale not recorded.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPerplexityPrivate · $20.4BDoubao (豆包) and Perplexity both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content and use an everyday AI assistant; smaller scale (private).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecagonPrivate · $4.5BCoze Loop and Experiments both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrestaPrivate · $1.6BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, evaluation and observability and 1 more; smaller scale (private).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLangChainPrivate · $160M raisedCoze Loop and LangSmith both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ByteDance's scale not recorded.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLaunchpadPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; scale not recorded for either.2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSierraPrivate · $15.8BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, evaluation and observability and 2 more; smaller scale (private).5 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNotionPrivate · $11BOverlaps on agent orchestration, text generation and workflow automation; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWritesonicPrivateTraeWork and Writesonic AI Article Writer both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; scale not recorded for either.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVSVerint SystemsAcquiredOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, evaluation and observability and 1 more; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Verint Systems is acquired, with no independent scale.4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMercorPrivate · $20BCoze Loop and Mercor Enterprise Evals both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; smaller scale (private); ships data service rather than the same layer.1 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCerencePublic · $384.9MDoubao (豆包) and Cerence Assistant both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; smaller scale (public).2 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDocusignPublic · $12.7BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, text generation and 1 more; smaller scale (public).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMoveworksAcquiredDoubao (豆包) and Moveworks Quick GPT both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Moveworks is acquired, with no independent scale.4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecartPrivate · $4BDoubao (豆包) and Lucy do comparable work on video generation; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMLMintplex LabsPrivateDoubao (豆包) and AnythingLLM both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareSSuperhumanPrivateDoubao (豆包) and Superhuman Go both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBraintrustPrivate · $125M raisedCoze Loop and Braintrust both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ByteDance's scale not recorded.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepchecksAbsorbedCoze Loop and Deepchecks LLM Evaluation both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Deepchecks is absorbed, with no independent scale.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGalileoAcquired ($68M deal)Coze Loop and Galileo both serve buyers who need to watch an AI agent for suspicious or runaway behaviour; ByteDance's scale not recorded; Galileo is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHubSpotPublic · $13BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, text generation and 1 more; smaller scale (public).4 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSASakana AIPrivate · $2.7BDoubao (豆包) and Sakana Chat both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (private).3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFalPrivateDreamina and fal Agent do comparable work on image generation and video generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 13 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Total funding

Not found · 19 Sep 2026

Looked for 2026-09-19 and left null: ByteDance publishes no funding total, and the totals that circulate come from aggregators (refused on a company record). The rounds that primary reporting does cover are a decade apart and were never summed by the company.

Valuation

News reporting · Feb 2026

Checked and deliberately left null rather than estimated: five different secondary-market prices were reported within a ~6-month span in 2025-2026 -- a $315B employee buyback (2025-08, per Reuters/Yahoo Finance), revised to $330B two months later, $480B after a November 2025 investor auction, and $550B when General Atlantic began marketing a stake sale in February 2026 -- none of them a primed institutional equity round, each measuring a different mechanism (employee tender, auction clearing price, an asking price for a stake sale). Writing any one of these into valuation would read as an ordinary equity valuation everywhere the field is compared, exactly the risk company-admission-standard.md §3 already names for a differently-denominated figure (Nous Research's crypto-token valuation).

Employees

Company disclosure · 19 Sep 2026

About section read 2026-09-19: 'ByteDance ... has over 150,000 employees based out of nearly 120 cities globally.' 'Over' -- a floor, not a count.

Founded

Wikipedia · 18 Sep 2026

Infobox: "Founded 13 March 2012". Used under data.md's wikipedia exception for founded.

Revenue (TTM)

News reporting · 15 Sep 2026

Yahoo Finance, 2026-09-15, citing The Information: full-year 2025 revenue about $200 billion, up 29%; H1 2026 about $120 billion, up about 30%. Calendar-2025 earned revenue, not a run rate. Not confirmed by ByteDance, which publishes no audited accounts.

Description

Company disclosure · 18 Sep 2026

Dreamina's own homepage (read 2026-09-18) markets Seedance 2.5 (video) and Seedream 5.0 Pro (image) as its core models; TechCrunch (2026-03-26) reports Seedance was "developed by ByteDance's CapCut team" and that generated video can be exported "directly into the CapCut cloud". Admitted as the parent entity ByteDance after the sighted product's own Terms of Service (see the dreamina product record) split between two ByteDance entities on a US-divestiture-related question the standard does not resolve.

Open ByteDance in the directory

Something wrong here? Send a correction — quote this company id: bytedance.