Spending 68 yuan, we had Doubao finish the work that would otherwise require a small team to complete.

A couple of days ago, Xiaolei published a comparative evaluation of the professional version and the free version of Doubao. In that article, many readers showed a strong interest in the capabilities of the professional version of Doubao and hoped that we would test it in other application scenarios.

Since everyone wants to see it, Xiaolei naturally won't say no. So, he gathered his friends overnight and discussed putting some pressure on Doubao. Let's see if the 68 yuan spent on the professional version of Doubao is really worth it?

We asked Doubao to do a job that "the IT guy didn't have time for"

After discussion, we decided that the first task for Doubao was to create the international version of the Leikeji website. This project wasn't a spur - of - the - moment idea. In fact, our editor - in - chief said he wanted to do it two months ago, but the IT guy in charge of our back - end has been too busy, so the plan has been on hold.

However, with the professional version of Doubao, we may be able to put this plan into action.

It should be noted in advance that Xiaolei has no experience in web production. So, he only gave the following prompt based on the requirements of the website:

Imitate the website UI design and style of https://www.leikeji.com/, create an international version of the Leikeji website, select an article from the AI, automotive, mobile phone, home appliance, and Internet sections of https://www.leikeji.com/ in the last month, translate it completely into English (with the original link and pictures), and finally send me the created website in a compressed package.

Then Doubao started working hard and began with the following statement:

I realize this is a complex task, and specific conversion and deployment steps need to be planned later. I plan to check the workspace first, then analyze the structure of the Leikeji website, and use tools to plan the task.

Complexity is good. Xiaolei is afraid that the task isn't complex enough to test the true level of the professional version of Doubao.

After the task started, Doubao directly wrote a Python crawler to obtain article links and content, but soon encountered trouble. Because the Leikeji website had been crawled crazily before, resulting in slow access, the official website launched an anti - crawler mechanism a long time ago.

Doubao, which found that the crawler script couldn't fetch articles, quickly changed its strategy. It used visual recognition to grab article titles while using the search function to find article content.

Finally, Doubao selected an article from each of the 50 articles as representative works for the five sections and gave me an HTML file at the end. The whole execution process took about 30 minutes, and Doubao completed the construction of the international version of the Leikeji website from scratch without any intervention, except for manually granting the permission to create local files at the last stage.

Here is the effect of the website created by Doubao:

Comparing it with the manually - created official Leikeji website, although it's not 100% similar, the layout is almost completely restored, and the top bar has been modified according to our requirements. However, after trying to click, Xiaolei found that the secondary sections of the top bar couldn't be accessed. This isn't surprising because I didn't mention it in the requirements.

However, with its ability to execute long - chain tasks, we can ask Doubao to add new functions to the website at any time in the dialog box. With just a simple instruction, Doubao added a secondary section page to the website within a few minutes, optimized the click - switching effect, and even added a function to automatically locate the article update list when switching back to the homepage from the secondary section.

We can even let Doubao take over the subsequent updates and maintenance of the website. For example, Xiaolei later asked Doubao to monitor the official Leikeji website, grab newly published articles every half - hour, and synchronize them to the website, which it did easily. However, to avoid affecting the access to public network links, we asked Doubao to save the updates locally instead of in the cloud.

I have to say that the task - disassembling and execution ability of the professional version of Doubao is really good. With such a simple prompt, it still completed the task well. Moreover, even when the local computer mode is enabled, the process of developing the website hardly affects the normal use of the computer. This means you can let Doubao handle various tasks in the background while you handle your own work or even slack off.

I've even come up with an advertising slogan: For 68 yuan a month, you can slack off to your heart's content. (It's not recommended to let your boss know.)

Colleagues are overjoyed: Finally, someone will do these odd jobs

However, not everyone has a need for website construction. So, we discussed whether we could ask the professional version of Doubao to do something more related to the daily work of office workers. At this time, our business colleague made a suggestion: Can Doubao help me summarize the information of the cooperation brands at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and make it into a table?

Without hesitation, we sent the website link to Doubao and gave the following simple and direct prompt:

Browse this page, list the manufacturers strongly related to Leikeji, collect their contact information, and output a table suitable for the business department to check and follow up.

In case you don't know, this page only has brand logos, and the total number should exceed 100. It means asking Doubao to first determine the brand identity based on the logo and then visit the corresponding official websites one by one to collect contact information. If a person were to do this, they would basically have no time for anything else that day.

So, how long did Doubao take? Less than 10 minutes. In this time, the professional version of Doubao not only summarized the brand information but also screened out the enterprises strongly related to our media attributes based on the fields Leikeji focuses on, and finally gave us a table that we could use directly.

We also asked the free version of Doubao the same question. Although it took a little longer, it gave a similar result. It can be seen that there isn't much difference in function between the professional version and the free version. The main difference lies in the speed of completing tasks and the self - correction ability when encountering problems.

The professional version often gets the job done in one go, saving you the time and cost of intermediate communication. For friends who pursue efficiency or want more professional skill support, the professional version of Doubao is indeed a worthy choice.

Later, at the strong request of our business colleague, we asked Doubao to create an exhibition information poster suitable for publicity. Doubao searched, summarized, and analyzed the exhibition report data of Leikeji in the past year by itself, and then combined with the sample picture we provided to output a poster that was almost ready to use.

Of course, there are some flaws. There was a problem of repeated exhibitions in the exhibition listing area, which can be further fixed by Doubao later. In Xiaolei's opinion, what's more worthy of attention is that the professional version of Doubao can complete many daily tasks with extremely high efficiency, and it also has various advanced functions such as local operation on the PC client and shared applications.

For example, the PC client of Doubao supports connecting to applications and documents and then modifying and beautifying files according to your needs. Doubao can directly help you with some very trivial but troublesome things, such as archiving invoice pictures in the desktop folder into a table. So, even if you don't plan to pay for the professional version of Doubao, Xiaolei suggests that you download the Doubao PC client and experience the fun of commanding someone to do things.

During the test, Xiaolei's colleague sighed after seeing the results: When I first started working, I always hoped to have a beautiful secretary in the future. Later, I realized it was unrealistic and gave up the idea. But now I see hope in Doubao.

You know what? Doubao is probably one of the few AIs in these AI models that presents itself in the image of a beautiful woman. You can't hire a secretary who is beautiful, has a sweet voice, and is all - around capable for 6,800 yuan, but for 68 yuan, you can really let Sister Doubao do things for you (actually, she'll do things for free too).

Whether 68 yuan is worth it depends on how you use it

Of course, AI payment doesn't mean everyone has to pay immediately. Doubao obviously doesn't have this idea, otherwise, it wouldn't have launched the office mode for the free version at the same time. From the results of this actual test, the free version is still sufficient for most casual users. For daily Q&A, data organization, simple copywriting, and basic office tasks, there's no need to upgrade immediately.

The professional version is really suitable for those who have started to incorporate AI into their workflow. For example, you need it to execute complex tasks for a long time and need it to change its thinking when encountering problems, minimizing the interruption and occupation of your energy. In other words, the 68 yuan doesn't buy you a "more advanced chat box", but rather turns Doubao from an auxiliary tool into a digital assistant that can independently promote tasks.

So, whether this money is worth it doesn't depend on how powerful Doubao is, but on how you use it. If you only open it occasionally to ask a few questions, the free version is of course more cost - effective. But if it can save you half a day's time and help you get results for some odd jobs that no one wants to do but have to be done, then 68 yuan isn't paying for novelty but for efficiency.

To be honest, with the rising costs of tokens, computing power, and user needs, the idea that "good - using AIs are always free" is unrealistic. By presenting the 68 - yuan professional version to users, Doubao is essentially making everyone adapt in advance to a new reality: In the future, the focus of our discussion may no longer be whether AIs should be charged, but which AI can truly turn this money into productivity.