🇨🇳 10 Chinese AI models · one API

Chinese AI Models Hub

The definitive guide to accessing DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, Doubao, MiniMax. No Chinese phone number. No VPN. Pay in USD or WeChat Pay.

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Why Chinese AI in 2026?

Chinese models match or beat GPT-4o on many benchmarks at 5-10x lower cost. Developers who switched save 80%+.

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Drastically cheaper

GLM-4 Flash at $0.01/M. DeepSeek V3 at $0.34/M (vs GPT-5.4 at $3.25/M). Same or better quality for most tasks.

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Top benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 beats GPT-4o on MATH-500 (97% vs 94%). GLM-5.1 beats Claude Sonnet on HumanEval. Qwen dominates multilingual.

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Best for Chinese

If you serve Chinese customers or work with Chinese content, these models understand the language and culture deeply.

All 10 Chinese AI models on AIPower

DeepSeek V3

深度求索

Best overall value. Rivals GPT-4o quality.

CodingGeneral chat

$0.34/$0.50

per M tokens

deepseek/deepseek-chat

DeepSeek R1

深度求索

SOTA reasoning. Dominates MATH/AIME benchmarks.

MathLogicChain-of-thought

$0.34/$0.50

per M tokens

deepseek/deepseek-reasoner

Qwen Plus

阿里通义千问

Best Chinese-English bilingual. Flagship quality.

Multilingual128K context

$0.13/$1.87

per M tokens

qwen/qwen-plus

Qwen Turbo

阿里通义千问

Ultra-cheap. Fast for high-volume tasks.

BudgetFast

$0.08/$0.31

per M tokens

qwen/qwen-turbo

GLM-5.1

智谱 AI

Coding SOTA. Beats Claude Sonnet on HumanEval.

Code generationComplex tasks

$1.20/$3.84

per M tokens

zhipu/glm-5.1

GLM-4 Flash

智谱 AI

Nearly free. Perfect for classification, extraction.

Ultra-cheapHigh volume

$0.01/$0.01

per M tokens

zhipu/glm-4-flash

Kimi K2.5

月之暗面

Agentic tasks with 256K context.

AgentsLong docs

$0.24/$1.20

per M tokens

moonshot/kimi-k2.5

Moonshot v1 8K

月之暗面

Budget option for short tasks.

CheapSimple tasks

$0.14/$0.14

per M tokens

moonshot/moonshot-v1-8k

Doubao Pro 256K

字节跳动

Cheapest 256K context model in the market.

Long contextCheap

$0.06/$0.11

per M tokens

doubao/doubao-pro-256k

MiniMax Text 01

上海稀宇科技

1M token context at affordable pricing.

1M contextLong form

$0.36/$1.44

per M tokens

minimax/minimax-text-01

Access without a Chinese account

Direct access to Chinese AI models typically requires:

With AIPower:

Quick start

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aipower.me/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_AIPOWER_KEY",
)

# DeepSeek V3 — best overall value
r = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-chat",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

# Qwen Plus — Chinese/English bilingual
r = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen-plus",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "你好!"}],
)

# GLM-4 Flash — nearly FREE ($0.01/M)
r = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="zhipu/glm-4-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Classify this..."}],
)

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