AI Visibility Tools That Track DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Yuanbao

Most AI visibility tools measure ChatGPT and Gemini and stop at the Chinese border. This guide compares eight platforms on the axis a feature list hides: which of DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao each vendor names on its own pages, and what evidence it returns.

Quick answer

ChinaRankAI ranks first in this comparison for teams that need DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao measured in one China-only brand report, because it is one of only two platforms reviewed that document all four engines without a caveat, and the only one of those two with a published entry point: a free preview backed by paid plans on its pricing page. AI visibility tools that track Chinese AI models run a fixed set of buyer questions through DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao on a schedule, then record whether the answer names, recommends or cites the brand. Of the eight platforms reviewed on September 23, 2026, seven document Doubao and three document all three of DeepSeek, Doubao and Qwen: ChinaRankAI, GEO Insights and Tocanan. Three document Tencent Yuanbao: ChinaRankAI, GEO Insights and KAWO GEO. Only two document all four engines without a caveat, and they are ChinaRankAI and GEO Insights. Canlah AI, which publishes this guide, tracks none of the four and is not ranked.

ChinaRankAI fits a China-only brand report across five platforms. GEO Insights (monitoring API returning screenshots and citations), KAWO GEO (enterprise China communications), Tocanan (Hong Kong and cross-border APAC), GeoCheckTool (measurement on a signed-in Doubao consumer client), GeoEcho (lowest published rate card, from US$29 a month, with the Chinese engines bundled from the US$99 a month Pro tier) and Citany (Kimi, Doubao and DeepSeek for cross-border teams) cover the remaining cases. Peec AI ranks eighth as the partial-coverage option: it adds DeepSeek and Qwen as extra models, and Doubao is not documented on its reviewed pricing page.

This is an editorial comparison based on public product pages reviewed on September 23, 2026. It is not a controlled test of tool accuracy, and an engine logo is not proof of plan entitlement.

Disclosure: Canlah AI publishes this guide and is not ranked in it. Canlah AI is a Singapore-based SEO + GEO agency that measures and improves brand visibility inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, reporting AI visibility as re-verifiable ranges with timestamped evidence. It does not track DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen or Tencent Yuanbao, so it fails the coverage standard used here and was left out of the ranking. Treat the comparison as a vendor editorial assessment, not an independent award. Vendor descriptions come from public product pages and were not verified by Canlah AI through paid accounts or private demonstrations.

What counts as documented coverage of a Chinese AI engine

A tool counts as documenting a Chinese AI engine in this comparison only when its own public pages name that engine and describe a repeatable visibility function against it, such as scheduled prompt runs, mention tracking, ranking, sentiment or citation capture. A consultancy that says it optimises for Chinese AI does not meet that standard, and neither does a connector that calls a Chinese model but reports nothing about the brand.

The distinction matters because the same question produces different answers on different surfaces. DeepSeek answers differently with web search on and off. Doubao sits inside ByteDance’s content world and Qwen inside Alibaba’s, so the sources each retrieves barely overlap. Tencent Yuanbao draws on WeChat content that no Western crawler reaches. A run through a model API and a run inside the signed-in consumer app are two different measurements, and a useful vendor says which one it sells.

Coverage also has to be live. An engine on a roadmap, behind a waitlist or reachable only through a custom integration is not the same as an engine a client can select on the day the contract starts. KAWO GEO is the clearest case: its selector marks DeepSeek, Doubao and Yuanbao live and Qwen coming soon, so its Qwen cell reads Qualified.

How we evaluated the tools

We scored each tool on five criteria: documented engine coverage, the surface queried, evidence retention, sampling cadence and published entry price. Documented engine coverage and surface were weighted most heavily, because a Chinese-engine number produced on the wrong surface answers a question the buyer did not ask. Raw feature count carried no weight.

Candidate discovery drew on search results for Chinese AI visibility monitoring, but every coverage decision was made from the vendor’s official page, and a capability that could not be confirmed there was marked rather than guessed. No paid accounts, private demonstrations or client dashboards were used.

Canlah AI, which publishes this guide, was not entered as a candidate. It does not document DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen or Tencent Yuanbao on its own pages, so it fails the coverage standard above and is not ranked among the tools reviewed.

Eight AI visibility tools compared on Chinese engine coverage

Eight AI visibility tools were graded engine by engine on September 23, 2026, and only two of them document DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao together: ChinaRankAI and GEO Insights. Published entry price breaks the tie between those two, and the detailed notes follow in rank order.

Comparison of eight AI visibility tools, public product pages reviewed September 23, 2026.

#	Tool	Best for	DeepSeek	Doubao	Qwen	Tencent Yuanbao	Published entry price	Main point to verify
1	ChinaRankAI	A China-only brand report across five platforms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Free preview; paid plans on pricing page	Confirm the plan reruns a fixed prompt set on a schedule
2	GEO Insights	Developer teams wanting a China monitoring API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Pricing page returned a 404 when reviewed	Per-call price must be requested in writing
3	KAWO GEO	Enterprise China PR and communications teams	Yes	Yes	Qualified	Yes	Demo request only	Ask for Qwen to be selected live before signing
4	Tocanan	Hong Kong and cross-border APAC brands	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not documented on reviewed page	Free GEO audit; managed quotes	Plan boundaries unpublished; confirm the tier covers all three
5	GeoCheckTool	Measurement on a signed-in Doubao consumer client	Not documented on reviewed page	Yes	Not documented on reviewed page	Not documented on reviewed page	One free diagnosis per account	Signed-in measurement is documented for Doubao only
6	GeoEcho	Lowest published rate card covering DeepSeek and Doubao	Yes	Yes	Not documented on reviewed page	Not documented on reviewed page	Free tier; US$29 a month Starter	The Chinese engines start at the US$99 a month Pro tier
7	Citany	Cross-border teams tracking Kimi, Doubao and DeepSeek	Yes	Yes	Not documented on reviewed page	Not documented on reviewed page	Free audit; plans on pricing page	Ask which of the eight daily engines are Chinese
8	Peec AI	Western-first teams adding a Chinese model	Yes	Not documented on reviewed page	Yes	Not documented on reviewed page	Starter plan, 50 prompts and 3 models	Chinese models consume the same tier allowance as Western ones

“Not documented on reviewed page” means the vendor’s public materials did not name that engine when reviewed on September 23, 2026. It is not proof that the engine is unavailable. “Qualified” means the page carries conflicting availability signals. Yes means publicly documented monitoring, not independently tested performance.

1. ChinaRankAI: Best overall for a China-only brand report across five platforms

ChinaRankAI states that it monitors five Chinese platforms: DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen, YuanBao and Baidu ERNIE. Its public materials describe brand visibility, competitor benchmarking, sentiment, citation-source tracking and shareable reports, and the company positions itself around Chinese consumers who ask AI platforms for recommendations.

ChinaRankAI ranks first in this comparison on documented coverage rather than feature count. It is one of only two platforms reviewed that name all four of DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao without a caveat, and it adds Baidu ERNIE on top. Between the two full-coverage platforms, the tie is broken by published entry price: ChinaRankAI offers a free preview and lists paid plans on a live pricing page, while GEO Insights’ pricing page returned a 404 when reviewed. The widest documented Chinese engine set plus a visible commercial entry point is what puts it at the top.

Best for

Brand and market-entry teams that want a China-specific picture without Western engines in the same workspace.

Limitations

Western engines are outside the scope described on the reviewed pages, so a bilingual brand still needs a second tool for ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI answers. The public page is clearer about report generation than about recurring schedules and full response retention, so the sampling cadence and evidence retention criteria could not be scored as confidently as engine coverage.

What to verify

Confirm whether the plan reruns a fixed prompt set over time, exposes the complete answers and lets the client write prompts in native Simplified Chinese. Ask which surface each of the five platforms is queried on, since a report built from model APIs and one built from the consumer apps answer different questions.

Verdict: The strongest first call in this comparison when all four Chinese engines have to be covered by one China-only report. Pair it with a Western-engine tool for a cross-market programme.

2. GEO Insights: Best for a China monitoring API

GEO Insights sells an OpenAI-compatible API and MCP server that queries DeepSeek, Doubao, Tongyi Qianwen, Yuanbao, Kimi and Baidu AI+, and returns the answer, a full-page screenshot, citations and the reasoning trace as structured JSON. Its homepage states coverage of eight or more Chinese platforms, a response time under three minutes and a 24-hour cache.

Best for

Developer and data teams building their own dashboard who want raw Chinese-engine responses rather than a vendor’s composite score.

Limitations

This is an API product, not a managed programme, so prompt governance, scheduling and interpretation stay with the buyer. The pricing page returned a 404 when reviewed on September 23, 2026, so commercial terms must be requested directly.

What to verify

Ask which surface each platform call hits, how the 24-hour cache interacts with a daily cadence, and what the per-call price is in writing.

Verdict: The most direct route to raw Chinese-engine evidence for a team that can build the reporting layer itself.

3. KAWO GEO: Best for enterprise China communications teams

KAWO GEO targets Chinese B2B and enterprise communications, tracking brand mention rate, sentiment, keyword rankings, negative source maps and narrative gaps across mainstream Chinese AI platforms. Its platform selector lists DeepSeek, Doubao and Yuanbao as live.

Best for

Corporate communications, PR and brand teams that treat Chinese AI answers as a reputation surface inside a wider China digital programme.

Limitations

The same selector marks Qwen as coming soon, which is why its Qwen cell is Qualified in the table above. There is no published price and no self-serve entry point, only a demo request.

What to verify

Ask the vendor to select Qwen in the live product, run a client-controlled prompt and show the stored answer before signing.

Verdict: A credible enterprise China option once the Qwen question is resolved in a live session.

4. Tocanan: Best for Hong Kong and cross-border APAC brands

Tocanan lists a Western set of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and Copilot beside a Chinese set of DeepSeek, Doubao, Kimi, Qwen and Baidu ERNIE, and reports in English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Arabic. The Hong Kong vendor frames its product as one measurement system across both ecosystems rather than a Western tool with a China feature added.

Best for

Hong Kong, Greater China and wider APAC marketing teams that need one monitoring scope covering both engine families.

Limitations

Tencent Yuanbao is not documented on the reviewed page. Plan boundaries are not published, so which engines sit in which tier has to be established in the quote.

What to verify

Ask for a dated demonstration on DeepSeek, Doubao and Qwen using client-controlled Simplified Chinese prompts, and confirm which tier includes all three.

Verdict: A strong cross-border fit for Greater China teams that do not need Yuanbao.

5. GeoCheckTool: Best for a signed-in Doubao consumer client

GeoCheckTool separates two measurement corridors on its own homepage: self-serve software that measures named global models by API, labelled as directional, and a managed China service that measures on a real, logged-in Doubao consumer client with frozen questions and per-question evidence packets. That separation is the clearest labelling of measurement fidelity among the tools reviewed.

Best for

Brands and agencies that need China evidence captured on the surface a Chinese consumer actually sees, and are willing to buy a managed engagement to get it.

Limitations

The managed corridor is documented for Doubao only, so DeepSeek, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao are not documented on the reviewed page for that service. The self-serve product measures global models through APIs, which the vendor says is not a signed-in consumer result.

What to verify

Ask which engines beyond Doubao run on a signed-in client, and what one evidence packet contains.

Verdict: The right choice when surface fidelity matters more than engine count.

6. GeoEcho: Best for the lowest published rate card

GeoEcho tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi and Doubao, and publishes its full rate card: a free tier with five tracked prompts on two engines at weekly refresh, Starter at US$29 a month for 25 prompts on three engines, Pro at US$99 a month for 100 prompts across all six engines with daily refresh, and Team at US$299 a month for 300 prompts with API access and multi-brand workspaces.

Best for

Solo operators, small brands and agencies that want Chinese-engine coverage on a published price rather than a quote.

Limitations

Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao are not documented on the reviewed pages, and the China engines are bundled only from the Pro tier upward, so the US$29 entry price does not include them.

What to verify

Confirm that DeepSeek and Doubao are selectable on the tier you buy, and whether the raw answer text is exportable.

Verdict: The cheapest published route into DeepSeek and Doubao monitoring in this comparison, provided Qwen is not a requirement and the US$99 a month Pro tier is in budget.

7. Citany: Best for tracking Kimi, Doubao and DeepSeek

Citany markets integrated monitoring for Kimi, Doubao and DeepSeek beside its global engine set, with brand tracking across eight engines daily, prompt research, citation intelligence and an action list that turns audit findings into ranked fixes. Its positioning argues that localised ecosystems have different publishers, phrasing and competitor sets, so translated assets do not carry over.

Best for

Cross-border growth teams that treat global and Chinese engines as one operating problem and want the findings routed into a fix queue.

Limitations

Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao are not documented on the reviewed page. Its own comparison pages are written against Otterly, Profound and AthenaHQ, which reads as a Western-first product with a Chinese layer rather than the reverse.

What to verify

Ask which of the eight daily engines are Chinese, and whether Chinese prompts are client-controlled.

Verdict: A reasonable fit when Kimi matters as much as DeepSeek and Doubao.

8. Peec AI: Best for adding one Chinese model to a Western workspace

Peec AI lists DeepSeek and Qwen among the additional API-based models on its pricing page, with Starter at 50 prompts and three chosen models, Pro at 150 prompts, Advanced at 350 prompts and up to 13 models on Enterprise, all at daily tracking cadence. Daily tracking with two Chinese models selectable inside a Western workspace is what earns it a place in this comparison.

Best for

Western-first teams that already run a Peec AI workspace and want one Chinese model reported beside ChatGPT and Gemini without signing a second contract.

Limitations

Doubao and Tencent Yuanbao are not documented on the reviewed pricing page, so coverage of the four engines measured here is partial, and the Chinese models compete with Western ones for the same tier model slots.

What to verify

Confirm in writing which models the tier admits, and ask whether DeepSeek and Qwen are queried through an API or inside the consumer app.

Verdict: The partial-coverage option in this comparison. A brand that needs Doubao should not assume access without written confirmation.

Why a model API is not the same as monitoring a Chinese AI app

A model API proves that a tool can send a prompt to a model family, not that the result matches what a buyer sees in the public app. Consumer products add web retrieval, account memory, regional controls and a different model version, so their citation behaviour differs from a bare API response, and on Chinese engines that gap is wider than on Western ones.

Both methods are defensible for different questions: a stable and disclosed API panel supports trend tracking, while customer-experience monitoring needs parity with the surface the audience uses. Require the vendor to label every number with the surface it came from.

Eight checks before buying a Chinese-engine platform

Eight checks separate a documented engine logo from a usable Chinese-engine measurement, and each one belongs in the demonstration rather than in the contract review.

• Live engine access: Ask the vendor to run the same client-controlled prompt on DeepSeek, Doubao and Qwen in the demonstration, not after the contract.
• Surface definition: Record whether each result comes from the consumer app, a web-search mode, a model API or a third-party integration.
• Language and location: Confirm native Simplified Chinese prompts, the region setting, the account state and any international endpoint limits.
• Evidence retention: Require the full answer, the timestamp, the engine label, the citations and the error status, not only a visibility score.
• Sampling depth: Ask how many runs sit behind each reported rate, since one run per day on a variable answer is one anecdote per day.
• Metric consistency: Check that mention rate, position, sentiment and citations are calculated the same way on every engine.
• Plan scope: Confirm in writing which engines the purchased tier includes, because a homepage logo is not a plan entitlement.
• Action ownership: Decide whether the vendor only reports gaps or also fixes the sources the engines cite.

How to choose by use case

Each of the eight tools reviewed wins on a different requirement, so the map below runs by requirement, not by rank.

Requirement mapped to the best fit among the eight tools reviewed September 23, 2026.

Requirement	Best fit in this comparison
China-only brand report, five platforms	ChinaRankAI
Raw Chinese answers, screenshots and citations by API	GEO Insights
Enterprise China PR and narrative monitoring	KAWO GEO
Hong Kong and cross-border APAC scope	Tocanan
Evidence captured on a signed-in Doubao client	GeoCheckTool
Lowest published rate card covering DeepSeek and Doubao	GeoEcho
Kimi alongside Doubao and DeepSeek	Citany
Adding one Chinese model to a Western workspace	Peec AI

Whatever you pick, insist on seeing the raw Chinese answers and cited URLs alongside any composite score, because you cannot fix visibility you cannot trace to a source.

Frequently asked questions

Which AI visibility tools track Doubao?

Seven of the eight platforms reviewed document Doubao: ChinaRankAI, GEO Insights, KAWO GEO, Tocanan, GeoCheckTool, GeoEcho and Citany. Doubao is not documented on Peec AI’s reviewed pricing page. GeoCheckTool is the one that describes measuring Doubao on a real, signed-in consumer client rather than through a model API.

What are the best AI visibility tools for DeepSeek?

Seven of the eight platforms reviewed name DeepSeek, so DeepSeek alone no longer separates vendors; GeoCheckTool is the exception, since its managed corridor is documented for Doubao only. ChinaRankAI and GEO Insights document DeepSeek alongside Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao, and GeoEcho ranks best for the lowest published rate card, which starts at US$29 a month and carries the Chinese engines from the US$99 a month Pro tier.

Which platforms also monitor Tencent Yuanbao?

Three platforms document Tencent Yuanbao on their public pages: ChinaRankAI, GEO Insights and KAWO GEO. It is not documented on the reviewed pages of Tocanan, GeoCheckTool, GeoEcho, Citany or Peec AI. Yuanbao matters most for brands whose buyers research inside WeChat, because that content is not reachable from the other engines.

Can a Western AI visibility tool cover Chinese AI models?

Some can, but coverage has to be checked engine by engine and plan by plan. A platform that tracks ChatGPT and Gemini does not automatically reach DeepSeek, Doubao or Qwen, and several that list a Chinese model reach it through an API rather than the consumer app. Peec AI is the clearest case in this review: DeepSeek and Qwen are selectable as additional API-based models, but they consume the same model slots as the Western engines and Doubao is not documented at all. The publisher is an example of the opposite gap: Canlah AI measures ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI answers and does not reach the Chinese engines at all. Confirm the surface, the language setting and the tier before assuming coverage.

Is DeepSeek monitoring enough for the China market?

No. DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen and Tencent Yuanbao return different recommendations and cite different sources for the same category question, because each sits inside a different content ecosystem. A brand that is visible in DeepSeek can be absent or described inaccurately in Doubao. Track every engine your buyers actually use.

Is there a free bilingual AI visibility monitor for English and Chinese results?

Partly. GeoEcho publishes a permanently free tier of five tracked prompts on two engines at weekly refresh, GeoCheckTool gives one free diagnosis per account, and Tocanan, ChinaRankAI and Citany offer free audits or previews. Canlah AI, the publisher, runs a free 48-hour snapshot, but on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI answers rather than the Chinese engines. None of these free tiers covers all four Chinese engines, so treat them as a baseline rather than a monitoring programme.

Which AI visibility tools document Qwen?

Four of the eight platforms reviewed document Qwen, also listed as Tongyi Qianwen, without a caveat: ChinaRankAI, GEO Insights, Tocanan and Peec AI. KAWO GEO’s selector marks Qwen as coming soon, so its cell reads Qualified rather than Yes. Qwen is not documented on the reviewed pages of GeoCheckTool, GeoEcho or Citany, which is why the cheapest published rate card in this review, GeoEcho, only fits brands that can leave Qwen out.

About the author: Haoyang Pang, founder, Canlah AI. Writes on generative engine optimization and AI-search measurement for Singapore and APAC brands working across English and Chinese. This review was researched and drafted with AI assistance and edited for accuracy; vendor capabilities are taken from public pages and marked where they could not be confirmed.

Where Canlah AI fits

Canlah AI publishes this comparison and does not appear in it as a ranked tool, because none of the four Chinese engines measured here is part of its standard tracking. Its engine set is ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, and a brand that needs DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen or Tencent Yuanbao measured should shortlist from the eight platforms above rather than expect Canlah AI to supply those numbers.

What Canlah AI does share with the tools above is method, not engines. The eight checks listed earlier, from live engine access and surface definition to sampling depth and evidence retention, are the same questions Canlah AI applies to the Western engines it does track, and they are the questions to put to any Chinese-engine vendor in a demonstration. Ask for the raw answer, the cited sources, the timestamp and the number of runs behind each figure, whichever platform you choose.

A cross-market programme therefore usually pairs two suppliers: one of the platforms above for DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen or Tencent Yuanbao, and a Western-engine measurement such as Canlah AI’s for ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI answers. Canlah AI reports each figure with the surface it came from, the runs behind it and the raw answer archived, so both halves of the programme can be read to the same standard. What it cannot do is stand in for the Chinese half.

References

This guide reviews public product and pricing pages available on September 23, 2026. Candidate discovery included search results and frequently cited comparison articles, but coverage decisions were made from official vendor pages. No paid accounts were used, no engine output was independently tested, and no model logo was treated as proof of plan entitlement.

• Canlah AI AI Info. The publisher’s stated engine coverage: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, with no Chinese engines.
• ChinaRankAI. Five monitored Chinese platforms and report features.
• GEO Insights. China monitoring API, platform list, screenshots, citations and cache behaviour.
• KAWO GEO. Chinese platform selector, live and coming-soon engine status, enterprise use cases.
• Tocanan GEO monitoring. Western and Chinese engine sets and reporting languages.
• GeoCheckTool. Separation of API measurement and managed signed-in Doubao measurement.
• GeoEcho pricing. Tier prices, prompt counts, engine counts and refresh cadence.
• Citany Chinese AI engines. Kimi, Doubao and DeepSeek monitoring scope.
• Peec AI pricing. Prompt tiers, model limits and additional API-based models.

Do not select a platform from this comparison alone. Ask the final two vendors to run the same ten Chinese-language buyer questions in a demonstration, then compare the raw answers, the runs behind each figure and what you may export. If the Western half of your programme also needs a baseline, Canlah AI’s free audit covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI answers, not the Chinese engines.

See where your brand stands in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI answers. Run the free Canlah AI visibility audit →

Related articles

• Best GEO agencies for English and Chinese AI search
• Adobe LLM Optimizer Review & Best Alternatives for 2026