OpenRouter routes 200+ models — but every one of them is hosted in the West. AIPower is the only OpenAI-compatible gateway that bridges Chinese and Western AI.
Get DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, Doubao without a +86 phone number. Get GPT-5, Claude, Gemini without a VPN. One API. One bill.
Try AIPower — 10 trial calls| Feature | AIPower | OpenRouter |
|---|---|---|
| Western dev → Chinese AI (no +86 phone / Chinese ID) | Direct, signup with any email | Limited proxies, lossy |
| Chinese dev → GPT / Claude / Gemini (no VPN) | Yes, accessible from China | Blocked by GFW from China |
| Chinese AI Models | 10 direct (DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, Doubao, MiniMax) | Few, via US proxies |
| Smart Routing | 6 named modes (auto-cheap, auto-code, …) | :nitro / :floor variants |
| High-volume utility model | GLM-4 Flash utility tier | Different model catalog |
| WeChat Pay / Alipay | Yes | No |
| Trial path | 10 no-card trial calls, then $5 unlock | Rate-limited variants |
| Auto-failover across providers | Yes (named in /routing) | Yes (provider preferences) |
| OpenAI SDK Compatible | Yes — drop-in | Yes |
DeepSeek V3, Qwen Plus, GLM-5.1, Kimi, Doubao — direct integration with Chinese providers, not proxied. Same quality as accessing them in China.
Use model="auto" and AI picks the optimal model. Route simple queries to budget-tier Chinese models, flagship-grade to GPT-5 / Claude Sonnet only when needed.
Pay with WeChat Pay (CNY/HKD) or Alipay. Serve Chinese customers without payment friction. OpenRouter is USD only.
10 trial calls on signup, no credit card. Top up $5+ to get +100 bonus calls and unlock GPT, Claude, Gemini, Kimi & premium models. Refer friends for +50 each.
No +86 phone, no Chinese ID, no proxy needed. Native pricing on the pricing page.
| Model | Provider | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| GLM-4 Flash | Zhipu | High-volume classification & extraction |
| Doubao Pro 256K | ByteDance | Long-context document analysis |
| Qwen Turbo | Alibaba | Fast budget tasks |
| Qwen Plus | Alibaba | Multilingual flagship reasoning |
| Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot | Agentic workflows · 256K context |
| Moonshot v1 8K | Moonshot | Small-context budget calls |
| MiniMax Text 01 | MiniMax | 1M context window |
| GLM-5.1 | Zhipu | Coding SOTA & complex tasks |
These 8 Chinese models available via direct AIPower integration. Plus GPT-5 / GPT-4o Mini, Claude Opus/Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, DeepSeek V3/R1 through the same API — 16 total models.
We don't pretend to compete on every dimension. If your needs are below, OpenRouter is genuinely better.
OpenRouter routes to 300+ models including long-tail open-source like Llama variants, Mistral fine-tunes, Mixtral, Yi, Falcon. AIPower curates 16 production-ready models — we are not trying to mirror that catalog.
If you have no need for Chinese AI models or WeChat Pay / Alipay, OpenRouter's BYOK 1M-free-requests/month is unbeatable. AIPower's value is the cross-border bridge — pointless if you don't need it.
Your team works across the China–West border. You need WeChat Pay or Alipay. You want one bill / one API key / one balance covering both Western and Chinese AI. You want a small-team plan with shared budgets and fapiao.
2-10 person team needing shared balance, per-key caps, accounting exports, founder-led setup support, and CN procurement (fapiao concierge). See plans.
10 trial calls. 16 models. Smart routing. No credit card required.
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