Chinese AI Platforms Alternatives
On a Western platform and want a Chinese one that can take its place without the network gymnastics? Start with the substitution guide below. It is organised the way you would actually ask the question: "I use X — what can replace it?"
Further down you will find the platforms laid out across 6 tracks, the offers these platforms run themselves (timed campaigns and permanently free quotas, listed separately), and a list of the platforms we have not listed yet.
How we count: a platform counts as Chinese when its name contains Chinese characters, its domain ends in .cn, or the host belongs to a known Chinese vendor. An offer is only listed when it can be traced to an official page.
460Chinese platforms listed
4.3% of all 10,663 entries
4.3% of all 10,663 entries
48Platforms on this page
6 tracks · 8 each
6 tracks · 8 each
45Not listed yet
40 platforms + 5 vendor names
40 platforms + 5 vendor names
27Platform offers
15 timed + 12 permanent
15 timed + 12 permanent
Substitution guide 12 pairs
Organised the way you would ask it: "I use this Western platform — what can replace it?" Pick one to open the Chinese entry we list for it.6 tracks · 48 platforms
Filter by track. Each platform shows the Western tool it stands in for. Tracks are editorial groupings rather than site categories, so every track also links to a real category page.千问Alibaba · all-purpose assistant plus an office suitevs GPT-4oDeepSeekDeepSeek · open-weight reasoning at the lowest API costvs OpenAI API文心一言Baidu · Chinese knowledge fused with searchvs ChatGPT智谱The GLM family: the strongest open models for codingvs Claude讯飞星火Trained and served end to end on domestic computevs GPT-4MiniMaxOmni-modal generation plus general-purpose task agentsvs Claude书生大模型Shanghai AI Lab · open-weight foundation modelvs Llama阶跃AIMultimodal foundation and on-device modelsvs Gemini
飞书多维表格ByteDance · spreadsheets as apps, readable by agentsvs Airtable千问办公Alibaba · enterprise office agent that can join group chatsvs Microsoft Copilot扣子-AI办公ByteDance · build agents into office workflows without codevs GPTsQoderWorkAlibaba · agent workspace, DingTalk integration plannedvs Copilot workspace我来wolaiA Chinese knowledge base with AI Q&Avs Notion爱图表Charts from a single sentence about your spreadsheetvs Tableau察言观数AskTableConversational analytics that connects straight to your databasevs Power BI Q&A畅图AIOnline diagrams and visualisation, made in Chinavs Lucidchart
TRAEByteDance · an AI-native IDE built in Chinavs Cursor华为云码道Huawei · the whole enterprise development lifecyclevs GitHub CopilotiFlow CLITerminal-based AI agent workflowsvs Claude CodeJoyCodeJD · code generation and completionvs Copilot模力方舟Gitee · hosting and deployment for Chinese modelsvs Hugging Face阿里云百炼Alibaba Cloud · model and application development platformvs OpenAI PlatformPPIO派欧云Distributed compute and model APIsvs Together AIAI PingA compute aggregator with 600+ models behind one entryvs OpenRouter
即梦AIByteDance · images and clips from Chinese promptsvs Midjourney腾讯混元AI视频Tencent · text to videovs Runway智谱清影Text- and image-to-video, free to usevs SoraVidu AIShengshu · reference-image-to-videovs Pika通义灵眸Alibaba · digital human generationvs HeyGen磁力开创Kuaishou · video creation toolkitvs the CapCut suite美图设计室Templated product images and postersvs Canva星流AIImage generation plus a model communityvs Leonardo.Ai
讯飞星辰AgentiFlytek · enterprise agent buildingvs GPTsMiniMax AgentA general-purpose task agent from Chinavs ManusSekoSenseTime · a creative agent workspace响指HaiSnapCreate and publish agents without writing codevs GPTs金灵AIConversational agent applications库库AIBaidu Wenku · a document agentvs Notion AI悟空Alibaba · an enterprise AI-native work platformvs Copilot workspace搭叩Agent development and orchestrationvs Zapier
讯飞译制iFlytek · video translation and dubbingvs HeyGenVemus未音QQ Music · AI music creationvs Suno网易·天音NetEase · AI music generationvs SunoMureka AIKunlun · AI music generationvs Udio音秘Baidu · speech processing and editingvs Adobe Podcast逗哥配音A voice library for Chinese AI dubbingvs ElevenLabs轻析 LiteSightAudio transcription and structuringvs Descript万象有声End-to-end AI production for audiobooks and spoken contentvs ElevenLabs audiobooks
Chinese platform offers Verified against official pages
15 timed campaigns (referral rewards and new-user gifts, all of which expire) plus 12 permanent offers (free forever, or a monthly quota that does not expire).Timed campaignsTied to inviting someone, or to signing up and verifying your identity. All of them end on a known date, so they are re-checked on a schedule and pulled once they expire.15 offers
扣子 CozeHigh valueReferral reward
6,000 credits
Invite someone to register and you receive 6,000 activity credits, valid 30 days; the new user gets 1,500 credits plus another 1,500 for each daily login. Personal accounts first registered after 2026-01-19 only.
Source: space.coze.cn · official credit rulesClaim →
硅基流动High valueReferral reward
¥16 each
Refer-a-friend programme: once your friend registers and completes identity verification you both receive a ¥16 general voucher, credited automatically within 1–5 minutes, with no cap and a 180-day validity. Runs until 2026-12-31.
Source: siliconflow.cn · official announcementClaim →
智谱 BigModelHigh valueReferral reward
¥10 each
Register through a referral link and complete identity verification: inviter and invitee each receive ¥10 of model credit. Referrals are uncapped, rewards accumulate, and this stacks with the new-user verification offer.
Source: InfoQ · the campaign page on infoq.cnClaim →
AI PingHigh valueReferral reward
¥10 each
Each friend who registers and verifies earns you both ¥10 of compute credit: uncapped, credited automatically, valid one year, and usable across 600+ models. Registration alone also comes with ¥6.
Source: aiping.cn · officialClaim →
LiblibAI 星流High valueReferral reward
400 points each
A referral link brings you both 400 compute points plus one SD3 allowance, with no account-level or activity threshold; a daily login adds another 300 points.
Source: liblib.art · official benefits centreClaim →
即梦 AIHigh valueReferral reward
188 credits each
Once a friend registers through your link and generates one image or video within 24 hours, you receive 188 credits (credited in about 5 minutes); the friend also gets a new-user pack.
Source: Jimeng app · officialClaim →
智谱清言High valueNew user gift
20M tokens
Register and complete identity verification to receive 20 million tokens; lightweight models such as GLM-4-Flash are free forever, with a 256K context window.
Source: bigmodel.cn · open platform offers pageClaim →
阿里云百炼High valueNew user gift
1M tokens
New users receive 1 million free tokens in total, valid 90 days; Qwen-Turbo provides 1 million tokens every month, free forever, granted automatically after verification.
Source: bailian.aliyun.com · offers pageClaim →
DeepSeekStandardNew user gift
¥10 balance
Registration comes with ¥10 of balance, roughly 5 million tokens, valid 30 days; a mainland phone number is enough and no card is needed. Web and app remain free.
Source: DeepSeek · open platform announcementClaim →
千问 AppHigh valueNew user gift
¥8 voucher
After registering, send the welcome phrase in the chat box to claim a ¥8 no-threshold voucher (needs a verified Alipay account, valid 14 days, stacks with merchant discounts). The phrase changes over time.
Source: Qwen app · official new-user offerClaim →
腾讯混元StandardNew user gift
1M tokens
The TokenHub new-user pack includes 1 million tokens for language models plus 1 million for multimodal understanding, valid one year; 3D generation models come with 100 credits each and video generation with 50.
Source: cloud.tencent.com · official documentationClaim →
WorkBuddyHigh valueNew user gift
2,000 credits
New users receive 2,000 credits on registration; back-to-school verification for students and teachers adds 1,000 more (students until 2026-10-31, capped at 2 million claims; teachers until 2026-09-30).
Source: workbuddy.cn · official offers pageClaim →
CodeBuddyHigh valueNew user gift
5,000 credits
5,000 credits for new registrations (claimed manually at codebuddy.cn/profile/usage, valid 90 days); a base allowance is issued automatically on the 1st of each month.
Source: codebuddy.cn · account centreClaim →
Trae CodeHigh valueNew user gift
4,000 credits
Registration grants 2,000 general credits plus 2,000 Work-only credits in one go, valid 31 days; monthly logins add 500 and daily check-ins another 150.
Source: docs.trae.cn · official documentationClaim →
Kimi 登月同行High valueReferral reward
one draw each
Invite a friend to register and you each get one draw, with membership-equivalent credit as the prize; the 3-day membership draw has a 90% win rate. Note: the invite-a-subscriber task is paused, only registration invites count.
Source: kimi.com · official help centreClaim →
Free foreverAvailable the moment you sign up, and the vendor states it is permanent or renewed every month. These do not expire.12 offers
通义灵码
Personal edition free forever
Alibaba Cloud · a coding assistant whose personal edition is entirely free with no limit; the enterprise edition can be trialled.
Source: tongyi.aliyun.com/lingmaClaim →
CodeGeeX
Free and open source
Zhipu AI · code generation, free to use, and the open-source model can be self-hosted.
Source: codegeex.cnClaim →
GLM-4-Flash
Free forever
Zhipu AI · a lightweight model that is free to call forever, with a 256K context window.
Source: bigmodel.cnClaim →
千帆 ERNIE
Free forever, no volume cap
Baidu AI Cloud · ERNIE-Speed and ERNIE-Lite are free without volume limits, rate-limited to one call per second.
Source: cloud.baidu.com · QianfanClaim →
讯飞星火 Lite
Free forever
iFlytek · the Spark Lite API is free forever; Qwen models on the Xingchen MaaS platform are unlimited during the campaign.
Source: maas.xfyun.cnClaim →
硅基流动
Some small models free forever
Some small models are permanently free, newly added models are free for a limited time, and 600+ models sit behind a single entry point.
Source: siliconflow.cnClaim →
Qwen-Turbo
1M tokens monthly
Alibaba Cloud Bailian · Qwen-Turbo comes with 1 million tokens every month, free forever, granted automatically after verification.
Source: bailian.aliyun.comClaim →
混元 Lite API
Free forever
Tencent Cloud · the Hunyuan Lite API is free forever, and every primary account also gets one new-user trial pack.
Source: cloud.tencent.comClaim →
有道翻译
Basics free forever
NetEase Youdao · basic translation is free forever, and document translation comes with free pages.
Source: youdao.comClaim →
摩尔线程
30-day free trial
A 30-day free trial of the AI Coding Plan, running GLM-4.7 inference on a domestic GPU: about 40 prompts every 5 hours, once per account.
Source: Moore Threads · official plan documentationClaim →
书生·浦语
Open source, free for commercial use
Shanghai AI Lab · open models are free for commercial use, and InternLM Studio is free to try online.
Source: intern-ai.org.cnClaim →
How we countRules and quotas change often, so always check the official page for the current terms.
Platforms we have not listed Backlog
Brands we checked one by one and confirmed are not listed as their own entry. Adding all 45 would take the Chinese total from 460 to 505 — from 4.3% of the directory to 4.7%. A batch of names will not move that ratio, so this is a scheduled backlog, not a target.Chinese platforms and brands missing 40Real and well-known Chinese AI platforms that have neither an entry of their own nor any entry carrying their name.
WorkBuddy
钉钉
可灵
硅基流动
秘塔
面壁
月之暗面
昆仑
智源
悟道
浪潮
中科闻歌
实在智能
来也
云从
第四范式
出门问问
聆心
琥珀
无问芯穹
潞晨
九章
深言
稀宇
百川
零一万物
光年之外
澜舟
天壤
澜码
虎博
竹间
小冰
思必驰
云知声
明略
一览
拓尔思
海天瑞声
格灵深瞳
Vendor names missing 5We list the products (Doubao, Kimi and so on) but not the company behind them, so searching a vendor name turns up only passing mentions and never the vendor itself. This one needs a data-model change, not new tools.
字节
金山
京东
美团
快手
Caught by our own scan 2These two are not Chinese brands but Western ones that slipped into our keyword list, and we removed them from the backlog. They have no entry of their own either, but they never belonged in a list of Chinese gaps — they are here only to show how this list was built.
Hugging Face
Zapier
How we countThe "460 Chinese platforms" on this page is the deduplicated union of three tests run over the directory: the name contains Chinese characters, the domain ends in .cn, or the host is a known Chinese vendor. That is 4.3% of all 10,663 entries. The name test alone gives 374 (3.5%); the .cn test alone gives 154. All three are low, which is why this page exists to mark the gap plainly and fill it on a schedule rather than to claim good coverage.
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