How should I use this ranking?

Use it as a comparison starting point, then verify availability, pricing and terms for your region.

Does the ranking guarantee current access?

No. The product pages and source links still need to be checked before purchase or deployment.

Chinese LLM APIs for developers

A developer-oriented ranking of Chinese model providers and API paths with international evaluation signals.

Methodology

Ranked by API maturity first, then global access, English readiness, pricing clarity, source confidence and editorial fit.

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At a glance

What does Chinese LLM APIs for developers compare?: A developer-oriented ranking of Chinese model providers and API paths with international evaluation signals.
How should I use this ranking?: Use it as a comparison starting point, then verify availability, pricing and terms for your region.
Does the ranking guarantee current access?: No. The product pages and source links still need to be checked before purchase or deployment.

#1100/100

DeepSeek

The English docs now make DeepSeek's current API shape explicit: V4-Pro/V4-Flash, dual OpenAI/Anthropic compatibility, thinking mode, tool calls, caching and agent-tool integrations.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2100/100

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.7 Code

K2.7 Code has its own open weights, architecture, benchmarks, API pricing and Kimi Code default-model behavior, so it deserves a dedicated model profile separate from Kimi Code and the broader Kimi API.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#3100/100

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 API

V4 is the current API line, with separate migration and pricing implications from the broader DeepSeek brand.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#4100/100

MiniMax

MiniMax M3

M3 should be tracked separately because the official homepage now gives it a distinct model page and positions it as the current frontier coding model.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#5100/100

Moonshot AI

Kimi K3

Kimi K3 merits a separate LLM & API profile because it is a flagship model with its own architecture, context length, hosted pricing and public open-weight release, rather than a minor K2.7 Code revision.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#6100/100

Xiaomi MiMo

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash gives MiMo a concrete English-documented open-weight anchor with price, context, test and deployment details.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#7100/100

Xiaomi MiMo

MiMo matters because Xiaomi is exposing an English-facing model platform across web, API, AI Studio and open-source channels.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#8100/100

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

Model Studio is the platform layer for Qwen access and should be tracked separately from individual models or subscription plans.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#9100/100

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 API

Kimi's developer path is separated through K2.7 Code, K2.6 and the English API platform, so it should be distinct from the consumer assistant and Kimi Code CLI.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#10100/100

MiniMax

MiniMax API Platform

The international docs show MiniMax as a full multimodal API platform rather than only a Hailuo video product.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#11100/100

Tencent Cloud

Hy3 Preview

Hy3-preview is the English-documented Hunyuan open LLM profile.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFree

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#12100/100

SenseTime

SenseNova

SenseNova belongs in the model-platform layer because the official site combines model highlights, token-plan access and office-work positioning.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#13100/100

JD JoyAI

JoyAI-VL-Interaction

JoyAI-VL-Interaction deserves a separate profile because it releases a full real-time interaction model and system stack, not just a static VLM checkpoint.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFree

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#14100/100

Xiaomi MiMo

MiMo API Platform

Separating the platform from model cards makes MiMo easier to compare with Qwen Cloud, DeepSeek Platform and Kimi Platform.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#15100/100

Anomaly

OpenCode Go

The useful boundary is the subscription contract: price, limits, models, endpoints and OpenCode provider setup.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#16100/100

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen-AgentWorld

Qwen-AgentWorld is tracked separately from Qwen Code because its public surface is a language world model plus AgentWorldBench, not a terminal coding product.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFree

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#1795/100

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen Embedding / Rerank

Qwen Cloud includes retrieval infrastructure models, so Qwen coverage should include more than chat and generation.

Globally availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 10/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#1892/100

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen

Qwen Cloud makes Qwen available for global evaluation through an English marketplace, docs, pricing and compatible API paths.

Globally availablePartial English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 12/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#1992/100

Qoder

Qoder is a distinct AI coding product, so it fits better in a dedicated AI Coding category than in generic LLM/API or productivity buckets.

Globally availableFull English UILimited APIFreemium

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 12/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2090/100

StepFun

Step 3.7 Flash

Step 3.7 Flash is the current headline model on StepFun's platform homepage, so it deserves a dedicated profile instead of being buried inside the broader platform entry.

Partially availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2190/100

StepFun

StepFun / Step

StepFun is important because it combines multimodal model depth, open-source releases and device commercialization, but overseas usability still needs hands-on checks.

Partially availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2290/100

Ant Group

Ant Ling

Ant Ling now has enough English-facing product, docs, pricing and integration evidence to be tracked alongside Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM.

Partially availableFull English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2390/100

ByteDance / Volcano Engine

ByteDance Seed / Doubao Ark

Seed2.1 and Doubao/Ark should be tracked as ByteDance's productivity-model and model-platform profile, while Seedance remains a separate video-generation product.

Partially availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2490/100

StepFun

StepFun Open Platform

The English platform makes StepFun more actionable for overseas developers than a company-only profile.

Partially availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2590/100

Tencent Cloud

Tencent Hunyuan

Hunyuan is strategically important because Tencent combines cloud APIs, global cloud billing, a broad open-source model organization and a newly global 3D creation engine.

Partially availableFull English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2684/100

Tencent Cloud

Tencent Hunyuan Open Models

The open-source organization helps show Hunyuan's model breadth beyond Tencent Cloud APIs.

Globally availablePartial English UILimited APIFree

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Availability: 25/25
English readiness: 12/20
API maturity: 12/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2782/100

Zhipu AI

Z.ai BigModel / GLM

Z.ai now has an English product surface, while BigModel remains the API evidence base for the full GLM product line.

Partially availablePartial English UIPublic APIFreemium

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 12/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2882/100

iFlytek

Astron Agent

Astron expands iFlytek coverage from Spark model access into agentic application orchestration and open-source workflow tooling.

Partially availableFull English UILimited APIFreemium

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 12/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#2982/100

Baidu AI Cloud

ERNIE / Baidu Qianfan

Baidu now has English model communications through the ERNIE Blog, while Qianfan remains the main platform when enterprise platform, agent orchestration and China-cloud deployment matter.

Partially availablePartial English UIPublic APIPaid

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 12/20
API maturity: 20/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#3078/100

Huawei Cloud

Pangu / Huawei Cloud

Pangu belongs in LLM & API as Huawei Cloud's managed enterprise model and development platform, while its strongest differentiation is vertical industry adaptation.

Partially availableFull English UILimited APIEnterprise

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 12/20
Price clarity: 6/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#3174/100

AtomGit

AtomCode

AtomCode belongs in AI Coding because it is a full terminal coding agent and Claude Code alternative, not a generic chat assistant or raw model API.

Partially availablePartial English UILimited APIFreemium

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 12/20
API maturity: 12/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#3274/100

OpenBMB

OpenBMB / MiniCPM

OpenBMB belongs in LLM & API as a Chinese open-source foundation-model ecosystem, with MiniCPM and MiniCPM-V as the main product signals tracked here.

Partially availablePartial English UILimited APIFree

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 12/20
API maturity: 12/20
Price clarity: 10/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#3372/100

Ant Group

Ming

Ming is the multimodal branch of Ant Ling and deserves separate tracking from text-only Ling and reasoning-focused Ring.

Partially availableFull English UILimited APIUnknown

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 12/20
Price clarity: 0/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

#3472/100

Xiaomi MiMo

MiMo-V2-Omni

The English MiMo site explicitly separates Omni from text, speech and Flash releases.

Partially availableFull English UILimited APIUnknown

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Availability: 15/25
English readiness: 20/20
API maturity: 12/20
Price clarity: 0/10
Source confidence: 15/15
Ranking fit: 10/10

At a glance

What does Chinese LLM APIs for developers compare?: A developer-oriented ranking of Chinese model providers and API paths with international evaluation signals.
How should I use this ranking?: Use it as a comparison starting point, then verify availability, pricing and terms for your region.
Does the ranking guarantee current access?: No. The product pages and source links still need to be checked before purchase or deployment.