Chinese AI tools for coding agents

FashionChameleon belongs in AI Video because it is specifically about real-time human-garment video customization, with clear relevance to e-commerce content creation and virtual try-on research.

Best fit · Researchers and e-commerce video teams tracking real-time virtual try-on, garment switching and human-centric video customization methods from Chinese labs.

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Project page / GitHub repository

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Research project page and Apache-2.0 GitHub repository; checkpoint and training code releases are still pending

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.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Chinese model APIs for coding agents, reasoning, tool use and OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible migration.

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Topped-up balance / Granted balance

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May 17

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Usage-based API pricing per 1M tokens; V4-Pro discount is documented through 2026-05-31 15:59 UTC

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

Best fit · Developers migrating DeepSeek integrations to current V4 model names and long-context reasoning workflows.

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Topped-up balance / Granted balance

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May 17

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V4-Flash starts at documented per-1M-token pricing; V4-Pro has a documented temporary discount through 2026-05-31 15:59 UTC

DeepSeek's English docs cover agent-tool integration as a documented path.

Best fit · Developers who want DeepSeek as a backend for coding assistants and terminal agents.

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DeepSeek API balance / Platform billing

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Uses DeepSeek API pricing for selected V4 models

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.

Best fit · Researchers and engineering teams evaluating Chinese open-source models for edge inference, multimodal understanding, RAG and agent experiments.

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Open-source self-hosting / GitHub / AtomGit repositories

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May 17

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Open-source repositories and model weights; hosted/API access and commercial terms vary by repo, model and downstream provider

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.

Best fit · Developers who want an open-source terminal coding agent for Chinese and global model APIs, especially DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen and local Ollama workflows.

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CodingPlan FREE / Manual API key

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Open-source MIT project; CodingPlan FREE is advertised; manual API key configuration is available

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.

Best fit · Developers and engineering teams evaluating Chinese AI coding IDEs, Quest-style agent workflows and repository-aware coding assistants.

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Free download / Qoder billing

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May 17

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Free download; paid plans and credits are documented in Qoder pricing and billing docs

TRAE is a coding IDE and agent product rather than a generic chat assistant, so the new AI Coding category is the right fit.

Best fit · Developers comparing Chinese AI IDEs, builder-style coding workflows and task-level AI software engineering agents.

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Free access / TRAE account billing

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May 17

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Free access is advertised; TRAE pricing page and membership terms should be checked before team rollout

CodeBuddy belongs in AI Coding because it is a full software-engineering assistant rather than a general chat product or raw model API.

Best fit · Developers and teams evaluating Tencent-backed AI coding IDE, plugin and CLI workflows with cloud deployment and agent automation.

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Tencent Cloud International / CodeBuddy account

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May 17

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International version supports Tencent Cloud International authentication; pricing and quota details should be checked in account

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

Best fit · Developers evaluating Qwen3.6, Qwen Cloud APIs, coding agents and multimodal Chinese model coverage from an English international platform.

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Free web access / Qwen Cloud billing

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May 20

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Free tier, pay-as-you-go API usage and Token Plan subscriptions vary by model

Token Plan is a distinct commercial route for Qwen Cloud and affects how overseas developers actually consume the models.

Best fit · Developers who want a subscription-style Qwen Cloud route for coding tools and compatible agents.

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Token Plan subscription / Qwen Cloud billing

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May 17

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Standard, Pro and Max Token Plan tiers; plan prices and quotas should be checked live

Go packages tested open coding models behind one subscription and one provider path, which is the real product boundary.

Best fit · Developers who want a cheap subscription route to open coding models with one provider flow and predictable dollar caps.

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Go subscription / Zen balance top-up

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May 17

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$5 first month; then $10/month

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

Best fit · Teams comparing a Chinese multimodal model platform with an office-work and agent-workflow focus.

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Token Plan / API billing

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May 17

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Free during public beta; paid tiers coming soon

Qwen Code is a distinct AI coding product and should be tracked separately from Qwen Cloud models or token plans.

Best fit · Developers who want a terminal coding agent for Qwen models and prefer open-source tooling with editor integrations.

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Qwen OAuth / OpenAI-compatible API

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Open-source CLI; model/provider costs depend on the chosen API or Qwen OAuth path

Hailuo is now treated as MiniMax's main international video line because the official API docs list current Hailuo 2.3 video models and multiple generation modes.

Best fit · Creators comparing Chinese video tools beyond Kling, especially for exploratory multimodal workflows.

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Credits / Token Plan

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May 17

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Token Plan quotas, Credits, video packages and pay-as-you-go API billing vary by model and resolution

Kimi has shifted from a long-context assistant profile into a broader AI workspace and agent ecosystem, so the site should track both user-facing features and the Kimi API platform.

Best fit · Users and teams evaluating a Chinese AI assistant for long documents, deep research, presentations, sites, spreadsheets and agentic work.

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Free web access / Kimi pricing plans

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May 17

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Free assistant access, Kimi.com pricing and pay-as-you-go API billing vary by plan and model

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

Best fit · Developers evaluating Chinese long-context, coding and agentic models through an international API.

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Pay-as-you-go API billing / Platform billing

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May 17

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Pay-as-you-go API pricing varies by Kimi K2 and Moonshot model

Kimi Code is tracked here as a separate AI Coding product rather than a navigation link or generic assistant feature.

Best fit · Developers comparing Chinese AI coding agents that can operate in terminals, IDEs and CLI-based software engineering workflows.

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Kimi Code plans / Kimi membership

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May 17

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Available through Kimi Code plans and Kimi membership benefits; exact plan quotas should be checked on the product page

Kimi Claw changes the product from chat to action, so it needs a separate risk and use-case profile.

Best fit · Teams researching Kimi's agentic execution and browser/workflow automation capabilities.

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Kimi pricing plans / Enterprise sales

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May 17

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Product access and agent usage vary by account and plan

Kimi WebBridge is a distinct local-browser bridge in the Kimi agent ecosystem, so it deserves its own evaluation profile separate from Kimi chat, Kimi Code and Kimi Claw.

Best fit · Teams evaluating local browser automation for AI agents that need existing login sessions without moving page content to a cloud browser.

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Kimi membership / Kimi pricing plans

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May 17

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Extension setup is documented publicly; Kimi Claw Desktop plan requirements should be checked on current Kimi pricing

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

Best fit · Developers comparing Chinese multimodal model APIs, agent services and OpenAI-compatible migration paths.

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Free trial tokens / Platform billing

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May 17

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20 million free tokens are promoted on the English site; model pricing varies by API

It is the English-facing Z.ai consumer entry listed on the official site.

Best fit · Users who want to try GLM through an English web assistant before using APIs.

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Free access / Account billing where available

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May 17

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Free online GLM experience; paid plan details should be checked in-product

ChatGLM remains a major Z.ai product name and should be separated from the developer API platform.

Best fit · Users evaluating Z.ai's consumer assistant experience, especially study and general AI chat.

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Free access / Product billing where available

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May 17

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Consumer assistant pricing varies by region

AutoGLM is a distinct Z.ai agent line and should not be hidden inside the generic GLM API entry.

Best fit · Teams researching China-origin autonomous agents and app-operation workflows.

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Free access where available / Enterprise sales

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May 17

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Product and API access vary by scenario

AutoClaw is now prominent on the English site and adds a local-agent product surface to the Z.ai map.

Best fit · Users testing a local Z.ai agent workspace with skills and browser control.

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Free download where available / Product billing where available

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May 17

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Desktop product access; plan details should be checked on download/account

Zread.ai is a distinct developer-product entry on the English site, separate from GLM API and ChatGLM.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Z.ai for repository understanding and code discovery.

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Free access where available / Product billing where available

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May 17

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Repository product access; plan details should be checked in-product

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

Best fit · Developers evaluating Chinese model APIs for long context, coding agents, reasoning models and OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible migration.

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Free daily quota / Pay-as-you-go API billing

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May 17

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500,000 free tokens daily per account; Ling-2.6-flash starts at ¥0.60 input / ¥1.80 output per 1M tokens; Ling-2.6-1T starts at ¥2.00 input / ¥16.00 output per 1M tokens

Ring has a coding-agent and tool-use profile that fits AI Coding better than the generic Ant Ling entry.

Best fit · Teams comparing Chinese reasoning and coding-agent models for tool orchestration, repository work and long-horizon autonomous execution.

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OpenRouter early access / Ant Ling API billing

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May 17

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Ring-2.5-1T pricing: ¥4.00 input / ¥8.00 output per 1M tokens; Ring-2.6-1T has limited-time free OpenRouter access until May 15, 2026

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

Best fit · Developers who want one China-origin platform for coding models, speech, video, image, music and multimodal agent tooling.

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Token Plan / Credits

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May 17

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Token Plan, Credits and pay-as-you-go API billing vary by modality and model

It adds the MiniMax consumer assistant entry alongside Hailuo and API Platform.

Best fit · Users evaluating MiniMax as a general AI assistant.

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Product billing / Free access where available

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May 17

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Consumer product pricing or free access may vary by region

LongCat-AudioDiT belongs in AI Audio because it is a direct-text-to-speech and voice-cloning model with released code and weights, not a generic research paper.

Best fit · Researchers and speech teams evaluating open-source TTS, waveform-latent diffusion and zero-shot voice cloning.

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GitHub repository / Model weights download

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May 18

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Open-source MIT repository and released model weights; inference runs locally or through a Hugging Face-compatible workflow

Talkie belongs in the MiniMax international product map because the official site lists it as a product, but it is a consumer app rather than an API surface.

Best fit · Users comparing MiniMax's consumer character and companion AI distribution.

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App billing / Free access where available

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Consumer app pricing may vary by region

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.

Best fit · Enterprises and developers already evaluating Baidu Cloud, China-local deployment, agent platforms or ERNIE multimodal models.

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Baidu Cloud billing

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Baidu Cloud usage-based pricing

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.

Best fit · Developers and enterprises comparing Chinese model APIs, Tencent Cloud integration, 3D asset generation and open-source model deployment.

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Visa / Mastercard

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May 17

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Tencent Cloud usage-based billing; Hunyuan 3D Global lists 20 free generations daily and 200 free API credits in Tencent's English announcement

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

Best fit · Teams evaluating open Chinese reasoning and agent models with long-context deployment requirements.

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Hugging Face / ModelScope

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Open weights are free to download; self-hosting requires large GPU infrastructure

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

Best fit · Developers surveying Tencent's open-source model assets across LLM, video, image, 3D and OCR.

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GitHub / Hugging Face where linked

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Open-source repositories are free to access; deployment cost depends on model size and infrastructure

ByteDance Seed is now a broad model portfolio rather than a single Doubao API entry, so it should be tracked as a foundation-model and model-platform family.

Best fit · Developers and teams comparing ByteDance's English-facing Seed model roadmap with commercial Doubao/Ark API access.

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Volcano Engine billing

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May 17

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Volcano Engine usage-based pricing

Seed GR-3 belongs in LLM & API because it is a model-family signal on the official Seed page, not a standalone application.

Best fit · Teams tracking Chinese robotics foundation models and long-horizon vision-language-action systems.

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Public repository / model card / Self-hosted infrastructure

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May 14

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Public model-page signal; deployment and weights should be verified from linked repositories or model cards

Seed GR-RL belongs in LLM & API because it is a robotics-model family entry on the Seed page rather than a consumer product.

Best fit · Teams evaluating robotics reinforcement-learning approaches inside ByteDance Seed's public model roadmap.

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Public repository / model card / Self-hosted infrastructure

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May 14

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Public model-page signal; deployment and weights should be verified from linked repositories or model cards

Seeduplex gives ByteDance Seed a distinct voice-interaction profile beyond text, image and video models.

Best fit · Teams tracking Chinese full-duplex speech models, realtime voice agents and multimodal interaction research.

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BytePlus billing / Volcano Engine billing

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May 17

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Voice model access and pricing should be verified through BytePlus or Volcano Engine

HiClaw belongs in Productivity because its core value is collaborative agent orchestration, not model hosting or a narrow coding workflow.

Best fit · Teams that need a self-hosted, auditable multi-agent operating layer for enterprise collaboration and task orchestration.

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Self-hosted open source / Docker

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May 17

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Apache-2.0 open-source project; self-hosted Docker or Helm deployment with provider and infrastructure costs

QwenPaw belongs in Productivity because it is a worker runtime for collaborative agent orchestration, not a direct model API or a full coding IDE.

Best fit · Teams that want a browser-friendly worker runtime inside a transparent multi-agent room rather than a monolithic assistant.

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Self-hosted open source / HiClaw deployment

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May 17

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Apache-2.0 open-source runtime; self-hosted as part of HiClaw or comparable multi-agent stacks

DeerFlow belongs in Productivity because it is a SuperAgent harness broader than an AI coding agent: its core promise is long-horizon research, creation and workflow execution through skills, sub-agents and sandboxes.

Best fit · Teams that want to self-host a Chinese-origin open-source agent harness for deep research, report generation, coding, file-based workflows and long-running multi-agent tasks.

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Self-hosted open source / Configured model provider billing

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May 17

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MIT open-source self-hosted project; model, search and infrastructure costs depend on configured providers

Skywork should be tracked as a workspace platform because the public surfaces are organized around task-specific agents and output formats, not one generic chat flow.

Best fit · Knowledge workers who want one cloud workspace for research, writing, slides, sheets, websites and short-form media output.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: access signals

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Free plan / Paid tiers

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May 22

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Free plan available; paid tiers vary by product

WorkBuddy belongs in Productivity because it is an office agent workspace rather than a general chat product or coding tool.

Best fit · Teams that want an office workspace agent for cross-app coordination, task execution and model routing.

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Free plan / Paid plans

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May 30

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Free plan available; Pro $9.95/month; Team $40/seat/month

Miora belongs in Productivity because it is an agentic workspace for creative production, not a standalone model API or a narrow media generator.

Best fit · Teams evaluating a multi-agent creative workspace for visual asset generation, video ideation, 3D concepts and prototype drafting.

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Not publicly confirmed

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May 30

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Public pricing is not shown; access appears tied to sign-in or reserve-my-spot flow

Pangu's value is in vertical enterprise deployment, not frictionless global consumer access.

Best fit · Enterprises evaluating Chinese industry models, private deployment and Huawei Cloud/Ascend infrastructure.

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Huawei Cloud billing / Enterprise contract

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Huawei Cloud enterprise or public-beta pricing

Spark is strategically important for speech and vertical applications, while overseas consumer readiness remains limited.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese speech AI, education, healthcare or voice-heavy assistant workflows.

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Alipay / WeChat Pay

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May 14

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Spark Lite free, paid token pricing varies by model

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

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese multimodal models, open-source agent models, video/audio generation or device-side AI partnerships.

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Platform billing / Step Plan

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May 29

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Usage-based API and Step Plan subscription paths

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.

Best fit · Teams evaluating a flagship Chinese multimodal reasoning model for agentic coding, tool use, deep research and vision/video-aware workflows.

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Account balance / Free credit first

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May 29

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Input $0.04 cache hit / $0.20 cache miss; output $1.15 per 1M tokens

Step Plan deserves a separate AI Coding entry because it is toolchain- and agent-workflow specific, not just a model API.

Best fit · Developers who want a predictable subscription quota for coding agents, long-context repository work and tool-calling automation.

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WeChat Pay / Stripe for overseas users

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Flash Mini starts at $6.99; Flash Plus $9.99; Flash Pro $29; Flash Max $99

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

Best fit · Developers comparing Chinese agent models, multimodal model families, speech models, English web demos and open-source deployment options.

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Card / Web Demo

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MiMo-V2-Flash blog lists $0.1 input / $0.3 output per 1M tokens; V2.5 model pricing should be checked inside the API platform

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

Best fit · Teams evaluating a low-cost open-weight Chinese model for coding agents, long-context tasks and API/self-hosted comparison.

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API Platform billing / AI Studio

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$0.1 input / $0.3 output per 1M tokens listed in the English release blog

MiMo now has enough English-facing speech signals to deserve a separate audio profile.

Best fit · Teams watching Xiaomi's speech stack for ASR, TTS and voice-agent experiments.

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API Platform billing / AI Studio

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May 17

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Speech-model pricing not publicly visible on the English homepage; verify inside MiMo API Platform

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

Best fit · Teams tracking Chinese multimodal-agent model families and Xiaomi's model roadmap.

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API Platform billing / AI Studio

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May 17

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Not listed on the English homepage; verify inside MiMo API Platform

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

Best fit · Developers who want to test MiMo through hosted API and AI Studio before deciding on self-hosting.

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API Platform billing / AI Studio

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May 17

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MiMo-V2-Flash release lists limited-time free access and $0.1/$0.3 per 1M token reference pricing; verify current platform billing