Silkline DataDouyin vs TikTok: What's Different in the Data
Douyin and TikTok are separate apps with separate data. A field-by-field comparison of what each returns for videos, comments and creators, from real runs.
Published 2026-11-10 by Silkline Data
Short answer: Douyin and TikTok are made by the same company, ByteDance, but they are separate apps with separate users, creators and content. Douyin serves mainland China, TikTok the rest of the world. Their data looks similar but differs in useful ways: TikTok tells you the country and caption language, Douyin tells you the province, and each has requests the other lacks.
Side by side
From our real runs on 9 November 2026:
| Douyin | TikTok | |
|---|---|---|
| Who uses it | Mainland China | Everywhere except mainland China |
| Fields per video | 28 | 38 |
| Where a creator or commenter is | IP location: a Chinese province, or a country for users abroad | Country code (US, PK, ID…) |
| Caption language | — (almost all Chinese) | Detected language code (en, es…) |
| Video counts | likes, comments, shares, saves | plays, likes, comments, shares, saves, downloads |
| AI-generated label | — | isAiGenerated on the video detail |
| Hot list or trends | Douyin hot list (热榜) | TikTok Creative Center trends |
| Shop | Douyin Shop | TikTok Shop |
| Creator marketplace | Xingtu (星图) | — |
| Request types in our tools | 21 | 21 |
| Price per video, Bronze tier | $0.005 | $0.003 |
Why the location fields differ
Chinese platforms are required to show an IP location (IP 属地) under posts and comments. It is coarse: a province for users in China, a country for users abroad. TikTok instead attaches a country code to the video and the account. So Douyin is the better source for regional analysis inside China, and TikTok for country-level analysis everywhere else.
Requests one has and the other doesn't
Only on TikTok in our tools: place search (a place with its video count; Paris had over 35 million videos tagged), video analytics with a summary of how a post performed, creator playlists, reposts, and similar creators.
Only on Douyin in our tools: the hot list, event boards and experience search; for creator rates and audience data it pairs with Xingtu and Douyin analytics.
Which one do you need?
- Selling into China, or watching Chinese trends: Douyin. Pair it with Douyin Xingtu for creator rates.
- Selling anywhere else: TikTok, with TikTok Shop for products and Creative Center for trends and top ads.
- Comparing a brand in and outside China: run the same keyword in Chinese on Douyin and in English on TikTok. The volume and tone often differ completely.