Youdao Zhiyun
Youdao Zhiyun is a one-stop AI open platform under NetEase Youdao, providing services such as large model translation, optical character recognition (OCR), voice synthesis and replication, smart education, as well as industry solutions, and supporting API and private deployment.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Youdao Zhiyun?
Youdao Zhiyun is a one-stop artificial intelligence service provider under NetEase Youdao, providing stable and reliable basic AI capabilities for governments, enterprises and developers. It covers natural language translation, visual intelligence, intelligent voice and smart learning and other directions, and provides API and SDK access as well as private deployment services to the outside world. Based on the training data accumulated by NetEase Youdao for more than a decade and the industry-leading deep learning technology, the platform emphasizes that its basic AI capabilities are at the forefront of the industry, and it continues to provide mature and stable solutions for customers in various industries.
Who is it for?
- Enterprises and developers: Technical teams that need to integrate translation, OCR, speech and other capabilities into their own products can quickly activate these features through APIs.
- Education Industry: Institutions that require smart education services such as English essay correction, erasure of handwritten text on exam papers, high-quality question banks, and annotation of Chinese characters and pinyin.
- Government, Enterprises and Hardware Manufacturers: Customers requiring private deployment, smart hardware and smart cockpit solutions can have customized solutions for different industry scenarios.
- Overseas business: Product teams that hope to expand into overseas markets with the help of AI overseas solutions and multilingual capabilities.
- Reading and Consulting Platforms: Product developers who need to embed intelligent capabilities in scenarios such as social chatting, learning and education, daily life services, and reading consulting.
Key features
5Natural Language Translation
Provides neural machine translation, image translation, real-time voice translation, document translation and web translation, supports recognition and mutual translation of hundreds of languages, and some capabilities can be used offline.
Large Model Translation
Based on large models to process complex language structures, vocabulary and context, it provides personalized and customized translation services as well as simultaneous interpretation.
Visual Intelligence OCR
Covers general text recognition, handwritten text recognition, full question recognition including formulas, PDF format conversion, real-time OCR, and PDF to Markdown conversion.
Intelligent Speech Services
Including speech synthesis, large-model voice cloning synthesis, real-time and long-short speech recognition, speech evaluation and personalized voice customization.
Intelligent Learning and Agent: Provides the open-source version of the Zidian Large Model, composition correction, question recognition, an Agent platform, and a variety of official Agents and Skills plugins.
How to use Youdao Zhiyun
- Start with the Newbie Guide: The official website provides a getting started guide and a free 0-yuan trial test.
- First, register and get connected, then select specific APIs as needed.
- Choose the access method as needed: It supports multiple forms such as IOS, Android SDKs and APIs, and can also expand access to the Linux end according to requirements.
- Boost efficiency with Agents and Skills: Directly call official Agents such as AI Speaking Tutor and Teacher Xiao P, or embed capabilities like document translation via Skills plugins.
- Focus on privatization and compliance: For government and enterprise customers with high data security requirements, they can focus on understanding privatization deployment and information security certification solutions.
- Reference Customer Cases: The platform lists cooperative users in fields such as social networking, education, and financial management, based on which you can evaluate the degree of fit.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Youdao Zhiyun receives about 14.5K visits per month.
Monthly visits
12 monthsTraffic sources
- Direct51.5%
- Search39.9%
- Referrals6.3%
- AI assistants1.3%
- Social1.0%
Top countries
- China87.1%
- Hong Kong, China3.6%
- United States3.2%
- Japan1.6%
- Singapore1.3%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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