Tencent’s WorkBuddy Tops China’s Office Agents at 85M Visits

Tencent’s WorkBuddy drew 85.34 million visits in September 2026, the most of any office AI agent in China, according to research firm Analysys’s 2026 third-quarter report on China’s office agent platform market, as cited by Beijing Business Today on 20 October 2026. Alibaba’s Qwen Office drew 46.55 million visits and ByteDance’s Doubao Work 30.39 million, the report said.

The 20 mainstream office agent products in the report together passed 300 million visits in September, up nearly five times from June, Beijing Business Today reported. The figures count visits, not users.

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What the Analysys Data Shows

Office agents are AI assistants that take an instruction in plain language, plan the task and deliver the result, as IT Home described WorkBuddy. Beijing Business Today named three such products and their September visit counts from the Analysys report.

Source: Analysys, 2026 Q3 China Office Agent Platform Market Insights, as cited by Beijing Business Today, 20 October 2026. Visits, not users.

By our arithmetic, WorkBuddy’s 85.34 million visits exceeded Qwen Office and Doubao Work combined, at 76.94 million. The product-review site Woshipm, which also cited the Analysys report, said WorkBuddy was ahead of the second- and third-placed products together, and counted four Tencent products, three ByteDance products and three Alibaba products among the 20.

What Was Posted on X

In post 9 of an 11-post thread on 26 October 2026, Keith Zhai wrote that visits to China’s top 20 office agents passed 300 million in September, with Tencent’s WorkBuddy leading at 85 million, and linked a Beijing Daily page. His take, in his words: China’s agent race is being fought at the office desk, and Tencent leads.

How Fast the Category Grew

Analysys’s second-quarter report, as described by IT Home on 20 July, put total June visits to China’s PC-based AI-native office agents above 60 million, with WorkBuddy leading at 20.97 million. That earlier report measured PC products, so its scope may differ from the September count of 20 mainstream products.

IT Home reported that Tencent launched WorkBuddy in early March 2026, and that the product connects several Chinese models, including Tencent’s own Hunyuan, DeepSeek, Zhipu’s GLM and Kimi. Woshipm said WorkBuddy was, for now, the only one of them that let users choose among outside models.

The Office Desk as the Agent Battleground

Beijing Business Today ran the figures in a story about an AI talent contest whose final was held in Beijing on 20 October, co-hosted by Feishu and Doubao Work, under the headline that ByteDance had organised it. Feishu chief executive Xie Xin told reporters at the event that the AI talent companies want is not someone who can use AI to write a slide deck, but someone who can solve real business problems and produce results.

Keith Zhai, who listed the data in a thread of China AI stories on 26 October, wrote: “China’s agent race is being fought at the office desk, and Tencent leads.”

The same talent theme ran through our ByteDance AI deployers piece, which reported job postings offering up to 65,000 yuan a month for forward-deployed engineers, who make AI work inside a customer’s business.

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A Different Race From the US Personal Agents

In the US, the agent race reported this week is about personal agents. Meta said on 21 October that its Muse agent has more than 10 million users, and OpenAI is hiring to scale its dots agent to a billion users, as our personal agent race piece reported. The Chinese figures in this report count visits to office products, so the two sets of numbers are not comparable.

The Structural Read

As we read it, the growth is the headline number: the 20 mainstream office agents passed 300 million visits in September, nearly five times June, according to Beijing Business Today’s account of the report.

As we read it, the field is concentrated: Woshipm counted four Tencent, three ByteDance and three Alibaba products among the 20, so three groups hold half the list.

As we read it, the measure is reach, not revenue: the report counts visits, and the sources we read give no user counts, paying-customer counts or revenue for these products.

Three Implications

FOR TENCENT IT Home reported that WorkBuddy connects several outside models, including DeepSeek, Zhipu’s GLM and Kimi, alongside Tencent’s own Hunyuan.

FOR ALIBABA AND BYTEDANCE Qwen Office drew 46.55 million visits and Doubao Work 30.39 million in September, according to Beijing Business Today’s account of the report.

FOR COMPANIES HIRING Feishu chief executive Xie Xin said at the 20 October contest final that companies want people who can solve real business problems and produce results, Beijing Business Today reported.

The Business Engineer Lens

This story maps onto the Business Engineer framework Enterprise AI: From Software to Substrate.

The analysis puts it this way: “The product is the interconnection.”

As we read it, WorkBuddy’s reported links to Tencent Docs, WeChat and outside models are that kind of interconnection inside the office. The analysis was published in December 2025 and does not discuss WorkBuddy or the Analysys report.

What Is Not Established

We did not read the Analysys report itself, only Beijing Business Today’s and Woshipm’s accounts of it, and neither says how visits were measured or names the other 17 products. The June comparison comes from a separate Analysys report described by IT Home, which covered PC products. Visits are not users or paying customers. We did not contact Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance or Analysys.

The Bottom Line

China’s 20 mainstream office AI agents passed 300 million visits in September 2026, nearly five times June’s level, Analysys reported via Beijing Business Today, and Tencent’s WorkBuddy led with 85.34 million, ahead of Alibaba’s Qwen Office at 46.55 million and ByteDance’s Doubao Work at 30.39 million.