ByteDance vs Decart

ByteDance — Application · Private · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  Decart — Foundation Models · Private · $4B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Doubao (豆包) and Lucy do comparable work on video generation; smaller scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 13 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 13 capabilities — Shares image editing, text generation and video generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldByteDanceDecart
Sizenot disclosed$4B valuation
Employees150,000—
Founded20122023 11 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationFoundation Models
Stack layerAgent platform, Application, Developer tool, PlatformAPI service, Application, Infrastructure service, Model API
HeadquartersBeijing, ChinaTel Aviv, Israel

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Image editingText generationVideo generation

Not verified for Decart · 10

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingAvatar videoCode generationData analysisEvaluation and observabilityImage generationPresentation generationTranslationWorkflow automation

Recorded for ByteDance. Decart’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for ByteDance · 5

GPU programmingModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingVideo editing

Recorded for Decart. ByteDance’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

ByteDance

Application

Doubao (豆包)Application

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

DreaminaApplication

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.

TraeWorkApplication

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.

Decart

Application

Delulu (by Decart)Application

Delulu is Decart's consumer mobile app for AI photo transformation, published on iOS and Android by Decart.AI, Inc. Its store listing describes it as a way to 'Turn any photo into something fun, weird, or just really good-looking, with a single tap', browsing preset styles and creating stickers to share.

LucyApplication

Real-time video editing platform that edits and transforms live video at streaming speed, for enterprises, brands, creators and live/streaming/gaming use cases; built on Decart's DOS infrastructure.

No counterpart

ByteDance sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Decart yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

CozeAgent platform

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 StudioAgent platform

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.

Developer tool

TraeCodeDeveloper tool

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.

Platform

Coze LoopPlatform

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.

Decart sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for ByteDance yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Oasis 3API service

Interactive world model for Physical AI, generating realistic, controllable real-time simulation environments for training autonomous systems, distributed as an API/SDK product built on Decart's Optimization Stack (DOS) infrastructure.

Infrastructure service

Decart Optimization StackInfrastructure service

The Decart Optimization Stack (DOS) is Decart's inference and training optimization infrastructure, spanning hardware-aware model design, kernel tooling, proprietary compilers and inference optimization. It is sold to hardware providers and AI teams as engagements covering benchmark optimization, customer-defined kernel and compiler work, cross-workload efficiency gains, and profiler and simulator licensing, and is marketed as hardware-agnostic across GPUs, TPUs, Trainium and AMD accelerators.

Model API

CogitoModel API

Cogito is Decart's OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API, serving frontier open-weight models including Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, GLM-5.2, Qwen3 235B and GPT-OSS 120B across Trainium, TPU and GPU capacity. A self-serve Standard tier is billed per token, while an ultra-fast reserved tier advertises 1,000+ tokens per second. It is built on Decart's own DOS optimization stack.

Decart API PlatformModel API

Hosted API for Decart's real-time video and world models.