Chinese video generation products to evaluate when Runway is too expensive, unavailable or not aligned with your workflow.
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This is not a generic ranking. It focuses on Chinese video products that can plausibly replace parts of a Runway workflow.
Kuaishou
Kling has an English-facing site and a broader creative and API platform beyond text-to-video generation.
Best fit · Creators, studios and growth teams that want a globally accessible Chinese creative studio for video, image, sound, effects and API-backed generation.
Coverage · 100/100
Alibaba Cloud
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.
Coverage · 100/100
Alibaba Cloud
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.
Coverage · 100/100
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Cloud now exposes video generation in its English marketplace and docs, so Qwen should not be represented only as an LLM.
Best fit · Developers who want Qwen Cloud API access to Chinese video generation models.
Coverage · 100/100
MiniMax
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.
Coverage · 100/100
Moonshot AI
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.
Coverage · 100/100
Zhipu AI
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.
Coverage · 100/100
Zhipu AI
CogVideoX is a real BigModel API capability and should be tracked separately from ChatGLM.
Best fit · Developers who need a Z.ai video-generation API inside the BigModel stack.
Coverage · 100/100
Zhipu AI
Audio is now a documented GLM capability family and should be visible in the audio category.
Best fit · Developers evaluating Chinese speech, voice clone, ASR and realtime multimodal APIs.
Coverage · 100/100
Ant Group
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.
Coverage · 100/100
Ant Group
Ming is the multimodal branch of Ant Ling and deserves separate tracking from text-only Ling and reasoning-focused Ring.
Best fit · Teams tracking open Chinese full-modal models across image-text understanding, video analysis, speech synthesis and image generation.
Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: pricing
MiniMax
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.
Coverage · 100/100
MiniMax
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.
Coverage · 100/100
Baidu AI Cloud
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.
Coverage · 100/100
Tencent Cloud
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.
Coverage · 100/100
Tencent Cloud
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.
Coverage · 100/100
ByteDance / Volcano Engine
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.
Coverage · 100/100
ByteDance / Volcano Engine
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance Seed's named video model and provides a direct way to track video capability instead of only through Jimeng or generic Doubao/Ark.
Best fit · Creators and developers comparing Chinese video models with multimodal input, audio-video generation and API access.
Coverage · 100/100
Skywork AI
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
Tencent Cloud
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.
Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: pricing, access signals
StepFun
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.
Coverage · 100/100
StepFun
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.
Coverage · 100/100
StepFun
The English platform makes StepFun more actionable for overseas developers than a company-only profile.
Best fit · Developers comparing Chinese model APIs for text, reasoning, tool calling, multimodal generation and OpenAI-compatible migration.
Coverage · 100/100
Shengshu Technology
Vidu adds another Chinese video-generation product to compare alongside Kling and Hailuo.
Best fit · Creators who want another English-facing Chinese video generation option.
Coverage · 98/100 · backfill: sources
ByteDance / Volcano Engine
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
Kling AI: Kling AI is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
FashionChameleon: FashionChameleon is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Qwen: Qwen is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Wan / HappyHorse Video: Wan / HappyHorse Video is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Hailuo AI: Hailuo AI is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Kimi K2 API: Kimi K2 API is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Z.ai BigModel / GLM: Z.ai BigModel / GLM is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
CogVideoX: CogVideoX is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
GLM Audio: GLM Audio is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Ant Ling: Ant Ling is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Ming: Ming is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
MiniMax API Platform: MiniMax API Platform is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Talkie: Talkie is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
ERNIE / Baidu Qianfan: ERNIE / Baidu Qianfan is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Tencent Hunyuan: Tencent Hunyuan is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Tencent Hunyuan Open Models: Tencent Hunyuan Open Models is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
ByteDance Seed / Doubao Ark: ByteDance Seed / Doubao Ark is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Seedance 2.0: Seedance 2.0 is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Skywork: Skywork is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Miora: Miora is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
StepFun / Step: StepFun / Step is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Step 3.7 Flash: Step 3.7 Flash is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
StepFun Open Platform: StepFun Open Platform is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Vidu: Vidu is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.
Jimeng AI: Jimeng AI is relevant because it is positioned around video generation or Chinese video-model evaluation.