WorkBuddy Malaysia — the official local guide
WorkBuddy Malaysia runs on the international edition of Tencent's AI agent, and you can start on it without a credit card. The free plan gives you 100 credits a month, and Malaysian users who sign up with BigDomain's code UWAJM9H2 get 350 bonus credits on top.
That is the short answer. The longer one matters more, because WorkBuddy is not another chat window. It sits on your machine and works inside folders you approve. It runs several tasks at once and hands back finished files: a report, a deck, a spreadsheet, a slice of code.
Tencent builds it. BigDomain, an official Tencent Cloud agentic-cloud partner in Malaysia, runs this site and handles local onboarding.
Key takeaways - WorkBuddy is a Tencent product, launched in China on 9 March 2026 and rolled out internationally on 28 May 2026. Malaysian users are on the international edition at workbuddy.ai. - The free plan carries a real workload: 100 credits a month, no card, plus a daily active reward for starting one conversation a day. - New accounts that enter BigDomain's code UWAJM9H2 at sign-up get 350 bonus credits; there is also a 7-day Pro trial with 500 credits. - Pro costs US$10/month or US$96/year, with 1,000 base plus 1,000 bonus credits each month. - What separates it from ChatGPT is the local desk: it reads and writes files in folders you authorise and returns finished deliverables, not just answers.
What WorkBuddy actually is
Tencent's own words describe WorkBuddy as an all-scenario AI work platform. You describe the outcome you want; it plans the steps and produces the file. Under the hood it routes each task across several leading models and draws on a broad set of built-in skills for common office work. Cost and quality follow the job rather than one vendor's price list.
It was built by the Tencent Cloud team, the same group behind CodeBuddy. That lineage explains the split in their lineup: WorkBuddy handles documents, research, planning and reporting, while CodeBuddy is aimed at writing code.
The one thing to get right before anything else is which edition you are on.
| Edition | Who it is for | What to know in Malaysia |
|---|---|---|
| International (workbuddy.ai) | Users outside mainland China | This is the edition for Malaysia. Free credits, the daily reward and code UWAJM9H2 all apply here. |
| China edition | Users in mainland China | Runs on a different account and billing system, wired into WeChat and QQ. Not the one you want. |
What you get free, and what Pro adds
The free plan is a working allowance, not a sample. Three sources of credits stack: the 100 you get each month, a daily active reward for starting a conversation every day, and the 350 new-user bonus from the code. The free plan also includes 3 automation tasks, so routine jobs like a weekly summary can run on their own.
When your usage outgrows that, Pro is US$10 a month or US$96 a year, with 1,000 base plus 1,000 bonus credits monthly and higher limits. There is a 7-day Pro trial with 500 credits if you want to test the ceiling first.
For a Malaysian team, the practical move is simple: run one real job on free credits before you spend anything. Hand it a research task that would otherwise cost an afternoon, and judge the output. See how the free credits work before you sign up, then compare Free and Pro pricing when you know your actual usage.
Who reaches for it in Malaysia
Picture a small Johor electronics distributor preparing for a meeting with a Singapore buyer. The owner needs a one-page brief on the buyer, a quote in MYR, and a short slide deck. Normally that is a day of copy-paste across tabs. With WorkBuddy, she drops the buyer's details into a folder, asks for the three files in one request, and reviews drafts that arrive together rather than one at a time.
The same shape shows up across Malaysian SMEs: quotes, reports, proposals, and the dozen documents nobody has time to format. The agent is useful precisely where the task is repetitive and the deliverable is a file.
Want to see the shape of that work before you commit? See what Malaysian teams use WorkBuddy for, then set up in 10 minutes with the international edition.
Why it fits a Malaysian office
Malaysian businesses rarely work in one language or one currency. A single team can field an English email, a Bahasa Malaysia quote and a Chinese client thread before lunch, and the documents all have to line up. WorkBuddy handles those three languages in the same task, so a bilingual thread can become a clean English summary without a translation detour.
The geography matters too. For teams working the Johor–Singapore corridor, the day starts early and the turnaround is tight; an agent that assembles a draft overnight is worth more than one that only answers questions. Tencent Cloud announced its first Malaysian cloud region — up to three availability zones in Johor — on 18 August 2026; two zones were live at launch, with a third to follow.
Two local habits are worth stating. First, keep company and client data in view: share what the task needs, and leave out what it does not. Second, bill in the currency your finance team expects. WorkBuddy's list price is in US dollars, but a Malaysian team that wants an RM invoice can arrange local billing through BigDomain rather than swallow a foreign-currency charge.
It fits because it matches how a Malaysian office already runs: mixed languages, cross-border clients, paperwork that has to line up.
How it differs from a chatbot
A chatbot answers and leaves the task with you. WorkBuddy acts more like a colleague with a desk: it opens the files, does the steps, and returns something finished. If you already pay for ChatGPT, the question is not which one is smarter — it is which one fits how your team works. We keep that comparison in plain Malaysian terms on our WorkBuddy vs ChatGPT page.
Start on the free plan, scale with a local partner
You do not need a partner to try WorkBuddy. Download the international edition, use the code, run a task, and see the result.
You may want one when the tool moves from one laptop to a whole team. That is the part BigDomain handles: setup, RM-based invoicing instead of an overseas card, and model access through Token Hub — BigDomain's own product — which is separate from Tencent's products and gives one API endpoint across multiple models. If your team is ready to move from experimenting to running it, talk to a local partner about onboarding, or read who runs this site first.
WorkBuddy is Tencent's; the local know-how is ours.
The questions people ask first
Three answers settle most first-time interest. Is it free? Yes — the free plan gives 100 credits a month with no card. Which edition? The international one, from workbuddy.ai. Who makes it? Tencent, through its Tencent Cloud team; this site and the local onboarding are run by BigDomain.
If your question is not here, the full FAQ collects more — or go straight to WorkBuddy in Malaysia, explained for the availability picture.
Next step
Claim the +350 bonus credits as a new user, then download the international edition and hand it your first real task. BigDomain's code is entered once, at sign-up.