AI Image

Qwen image models are visible in the international marketplace and deserve a separate image-category entry.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese image-generation APIs with English docs and Qwen Cloud billing.

Coverage · 100/100

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Qwen Cloud billing / Token Plan where supported

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Free tier and pay-as-you-go image API billing vary by model

Image generation is a separate BigModel capability and should be visible outside the generic GLM API profile.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Chinese image-generation APIs with text rendering and multimodal stack fit.

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Free model where available / Platform billing

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Aug 4

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Usage-based image API pricing varies by model

MiniMax Image API fills the image modality in MiniMax's international multimodal stack.

Best fit · Developers adding Chinese image generation to apps through a documented API.

Coverage · 98/100 · backfill: sources

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Token Plan / Credits

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Aug 4

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Token Plan image quotas, Credits and pay-as-you-go billing vary by plan

ERNIE-Image is a distinct Baidu image-model signal from the ERNIE Blog and should be tracked separately from the general Qianfan model platform.

Best fit · Researchers and builders comparing Chinese open or semi-open text-to-image model families.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: pricing

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Baidu Cloud billing where available / Open-weights deployment path if released

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Model access, open weights and API availability should be checked from Baidu's current release and platform links

Hunyuan 3D Global is Tencent Hunyuan's international consumer/creator product entry.

Best fit · Creators and enterprises needing Chinese AI 3D asset generation with a global web product and Tencent Cloud API path.

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Free daily generations / Tencent Cloud billing

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Aug 4

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20 free generations daily for Hunyuan 3D Global users; 200 free credits for enterprise API users per Tencent's English announcement

Seedream 5.0 Lite is a distinct ByteDance image-generation product with its own BytePlus product, API and pricing page, separate from Seed2.1, Seedance and generic Doubao/Ark.

Best fit · Designers, app builders and marketing teams comparing Chinese image models with public API access, editing workflows and predictable per-image pricing.

Coverage · 100/100

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BytePlus billing / ModelArk billing

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Aug 4

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$0.035 per image; 50 free image generations listed on BytePlus

Step Image Edit 2 is concrete enough to track separately because the docs publish endpoints, limits and per-image pricing.

Best fit · Developers testing low-latency Chinese image-generation and image-editing APIs for interactive apps.

Coverage · 91/100 · backfill: sources, freshness

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Open Platform balance / API billing

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Aug 4

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$0.003 per text-to-image or image-editing result

Jimeng is valuable intelligence content even if it is not a global buyer-ready product.

Best fit · Market watchers tracking China-first creative AI applications from ByteDance.

Coverage · 94/100 · backfill: sources, access signals

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China payment methods

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Aug 4

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China-market consumer pricing