Chinese AI Models
Leading large models and APIs from Chinese labs, with strong Chinese-language capabilities.
Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) API
Qwen is Alibaba's large language model API, offering strong multilingual and Chinese-language capabilities across chat, coding, and vision models. Many Qwen models are also released with open weights, giving developers the choice between hosted API convenience and self-deployed control at competitive prices.
ERNIE (Wenxin) API
ERNIE is Baidu's large model API with particularly strong Chinese-language understanding, multimodal support, and deep enterprise integrations within the Baidu ecosystem. It suits businesses targeting the Chinese market that need reliable language processing, knowledge-enhanced reasoning, and compliance with local regulations.
Zhipu GLM API
Zhipu AI's GLM series is a competitive Chinese large model family accessible via API, with strong reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities. Spun out of Tsinghua University research, GLM models offer both hosted API access and open-weight releases, making them popular for Chinese-language applications and agent development.
DeepSeek API Usage Guide
DeepSeek provides high-performance chat and reasoning models at remarkably low cost, with an OpenAI-compatible API that makes migration trivial. This guide walks through setup, key endpoints, and best practices for getting the most out of DeepSeek's strong coding and math capabilities.
Kimi (Moonshot AI)
Kimi is Moonshot AI's assistant and API, known for very long context handling and strong reasoning performance — a leading choice in the Chinese model ecosystem. It excels at processing lengthy documents and complex analysis, with competitive API pricing for developers building Chinese-language applications.
Doubao
Doubao is ByteDance's AI assistant and model family, hugely popular in China for chat, voice, image, and study scenarios. Developers can access the underlying models through the Volcano Engine API, which offers competitive pricing and strong Chinese-language performance across text and multimodal tasks.
Tencent Hunyuan
Hunyuan is Tencent's foundation model family spanning chat, image, video, and 3D generation, with several open-weight releases alongside APIs on Tencent Cloud. Its video and 3D models are particularly notable in the open-source community, making it a versatile option for multimodal Chinese-market applications.
MiniMax
MiniMax is a Chinese frontier AI lab offering text, speech, music, and video models through a unified API, known especially for long-context language models and high-quality voice synthesis. It provides developers a versatile multimodal toolkit at competitive prices, popular for voice agents and creative applications.
iFlytek Spark
Spark is iFlytek's foundation model built on decades of speech technology leadership, offering industry-leading Chinese speech recognition and synthesis alongside general language capabilities. It is widely deployed in education, healthcare, and enterprise scenarios across China, with APIs on the iFlytek open platform.