Collection
Chinese AI tools
184 products built in mainland China, across 16 categories. Most directories list these by name and stop there. The interesting question is a different one: can you actually use any of it from where you are?
So every entry here carries an Access & Availability block โ what signup demands, whether the site resolves outside China, which language the interface speaks, and what currency the bill arrives in. 131 of them have a full written review with features, pricing tiers and a verdict.
Three things decide whether a Chinese tool works for you
- Signup
- A mainland mobile number is the usual gate. Some sites accept email, most do not, and a few will only take WeChat.
- Reachability
- The domain often resolves worldwide while the login, payment and support flows assume you are inside China.
- Billing
- Prices are quoted in CNY with Alipay or WeChat Pay. International cards are rarely accepted outside the .com international builds.
Chatbot18
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Open-weight reasoning models, free to chat with
DeepSeek's R1 and V3 models trade blows with frontier labs on maths and code at a fraction of the price, and the chat app stays free with no daily message cap.
Alibaba's multilingual assistant, free and open-weight
Alibaba's Qwen family is the most-downloaded open model line in the world; Qwen Chat is the hosted English interface with image, video and code models built in.
Moonshot's long-context assistant with deep research
Kimi handles very long documents and runs an agentic research mode that browses dozens of sources before writing a cited report.
ByteDance's mass-market assistant, Chinese-first
Doubao is the most-used consumer chatbot in China, bundled with writing, image and voice features โ but the interface is Chinese-only.
SenseTime's multimodal assistant, strong on charts and documents
SenseNova is SenseTime's consumer assistant, built on the SenseNova model family with unusually good document and chart understanding.
Zhipu's GLM chat model
Conversational interface to Zhipu's GLM family, open to academic and industry research programmes.
Tencent's assistant with WeChat search and Hunyuan models
Yuanbao (่ พ่ฎฏๅ ๅฎ) pairs Tencent's Hunyuan models with WeChat official-account search, file parsing and a desktop client.
Deep reasoning, o1-class
iFlytek's assistant with a heavily upgraded reasoning mode positioned against OpenAI's o1.
Agents9
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ByteDance's no-code agent builder
Coze (ๆฃๅญ) lets you assemble chatbots and agents from plugins, knowledge bases and workflows, then publish them to Discord, Telegram or the web.
Build a chatbot agent and publish it to WeChat in an afternoon
Yuanqi is Tencent's no-code agent builder, with distribution into WeChat, QQ and Tencent's own assistant surfaces.
Character creation on Qwen
Alibaba Cloud's character platform built on the Qwen models, where characters can be applied to scenarios such as detective puzzles or emotional confessions.
Threat detection and response
360's network security platform for advanced threat detection, response and automated security operations.
Production agents from prompts
iFlytek Spark's agent platform for building and publishing production-grade agents out of prompts and workflows.
AI toolkit for bioscience research
Research platform for the life sciences with paper writing, scientific illustration and a set of AI modules in one workspace.
Desktop agent that plans and ships
Local-first AI desktop assistant that plans a task, executes it and hands back the finished result.
Agents without the terminal
Bundles installation, environment setup and model management into one step for people who want to run agents without touching a command line.
Image23
All 23 โByteDance's consumer front end for Seedream images and Seedance video
Jimeng is the Chinese consumer app built on ByteDance's Seedream image and Seedance video models. It is where most of the viral Chinese AI image styles are made first.
China's largest Stable Diffusion model community, with a hosted workbench
LiblibAI hosts hundreds of thousands of community-trained checkpoints and LoRAs, with a browser workbench that runs them without a local GPU.
Tencent's open image model, strong on Chinese aesthetics
HunyuanImage handles Chinese calligraphy, ink-wash styles and product shots that Western models often get wrong, and weights are public.
Text and image to 3D mesh, built by a China-based team
Meshy turns a prompt or a reference image into a textured 3D model with PBR maps, aimed at game and product work rather than printing.
Canva's main Chinese rival, with heavier AI retouching
Gaoding pairs a template-driven design editor with AI background removal, object erasure and poster generation aimed at e-commerce sellers.
Alibaba's image and video generator, free on the web
Wanxiang generates images and short videos from Chinese or English prompts, and is free to use on the web with a Taobao or Alibaba account.
Product-photo AI for marketplace sellers
Meitu's commerce-focused studio turns a phone photo of a product into a clean marketplace listing image, complete with generated backdrop and copy space.
Video16
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Kuaishou's video model, now with a global site
Kling (ๅฏ็ต) is the strongest Chinese video model for human motion, and the English site adds lip-sync, motion brushes and 1080p output.
MiniMax's video model with expressive characters
Hailuo (ๆตท่บ) is MiniMax's video generator, known for lively facial expression and clean 1080p output at a low price.
Multi-reference video that keeps characters consistent
Vidu accepts several reference images at once, so a character and a product can both stay on model across shots.
Trend-driven video effects from a photo
PixVerse is built around shareable effects โ hug, dance, transform โ that animate a photo into a short social clip.
SenseTime's AI short-drama workbench
Seko takes a script through casting, storyboard and rendering, built by SenseTime for the vertical short-drama industry.
Meitu's short-film generator that keeps characters consistent
MOKI turns a short script into a storyboarded, generated video with consistent characters โ closer to an animation pipeline than a text-to-video box.
AI animation and digital-human video, no editor required
Laihua generates explainer animations and talking-avatar videos from text, aimed at training and marketing teams rather than filmmakers.
Audio9
All 9 โTranscription and meeting systems
iFlytek's office SaaS for speech-to-text, recording transcription, smart meeting rooms and translation.
AI voice-over studio tuned for Chinese short video
Moyin generates Chinese narration with a large voice library and per-sentence pacing control, built for people producing video at volume.
Free TTS, 300+ voices
Free text-to-speech covering more than 50 languages and 300 voice styles for video dubbing, audiobooks and training.
Lyrics or a reference to a song
Kunlun Tech's music platform: supply lyrics or a reference track and get an original song, or something in a similar style.
All-in-one media processing
Chinese-language platform covering text-to-video, subtitle generation and speech-to-text for creators and casual users.
Music from text, image or video
Music generation that accepts text, images or video as input, aimed at original music, short-video scoring and ads.
Hundreds of live voice effects
Real-time voice changer with hundreds of effects, including pitch beautifying and gender swap, that works with games and streaming software.
Audio and video into notes
Converts recordings into transcripts, summaries, mind maps and translations for creators, teachers and researchers.
Music3
AI song generation from NetEase's music team
Tianyin writes lyrics, melody and arrangement from a prompt, then renders a full song with a synthetic vocal in Chinese or English.
Singing synthesis
AI singing engine from TimeDomain for producing expressive, personalised vocals.
Instruments, vocals and dialect
Kunlun Tech's music platform with a self-trained model covering many styles, including dialect songs.
Coding17
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Free AI IDE with strong Chinese and English support
Trae from ByteDance is a VS Code fork with an agent mode, free access to frontier models during preview, and bilingual UI.
Alibaba's agentic IDE with repository memory
Qoder is an Alibaba-built IDE that indexes the repository and keeps a memory of architecture decisions to plan larger changes.
Alibaba's coding assistant with free personal use
Tongyi Lingma (้ไน็ต็ ) provides completion, chat and unit-test generation in JetBrains and VS Code, with a free personal tier.
Open-source AI coding assistant built around prompt workflows
DevChat is an IDE plugin from a Chinese team that treats prompts as reusable, versioned workflow steps rather than one-off chat messages.
Code generation and translation
Coding assistant that generates code, translates between languages and writes comments, covering 20+ languages.
Coding help from ERNIE
Coding assistant on the ERNIE model that completes code and generates tests and comments.
GPU containers and DeepSeek
Cloud platform hosting DeepSeek R1 with OpenAI-compatible APIs, plus GPU containers and serverless GPU for deployment.
Writing20
All 20 โChinese AI writing platform
One of the first Chinese AI writing platforms, covering proposals, reports, essays and e-commerce copy.
Chinese academic and business writing assistant with plagiarism checks
Pitaya reviews Chinese prose for grammar, register and repetition, and includes a similarity check aimed at thesis writers.
Long documents, Baidu style
Baidu's AI-native app for long-document handling and content creation, drawing on the Baidu Wenku corpus.
Keywords into publishable articles
Marketing copy generator that turns keywords into original articles ready to publish across platforms.
Scores English, flags Chinglish
Scores English writing across five genres and around 30 scenarios, flagging Chinglish and suggesting concrete fixes.
Content operations with AI
iFlytek's content-operations assistant for self-media, enterprise marketing and education.
AI-ready enterprise content hub
Enterprise content platform combining knowledge base, asset library and app library, deployable as SaaS or privately, aimed at AI data preparation and customer support portals.
AI for the bidding process
Bidding tool that supports tender analysis and document drafting for procurement teams.
Productivity23
All 23 โFree diagramming with a large Chinese template library
ProcessOn draws flowcharts, mind maps, UML and BPMN in the browser, with thousands of community templates.
AI across docs, sheets and meetings in ByteDance's workspace
Feishu's AI is spread through the suite rather than boxed into a chatbot: it drafts in docs, fills sheets and summarises meetings in place.
Turn text into infographics and diagrams
PicDoc converts documents or pasted text into infographics, flowcharts and structured visuals for reports.
Charts generated from text or spreadsheets
VisDoc reads text or tabular data and produces bar, line and pie charts with sensible defaults and annotations.
iFlytek's document and slide generator
Zhiwen (่ฎฏ้ฃๆบๆ) generates PPTs and Word documents from a topic or a file, with Chinese-first templates and voice narration.
Outliner-first notes with AI expansion and summarisation
Mubu is a keyboard-driven outliner for Chinese knowledge workers, with AI that expands a bullet into a paragraph or compresses a document into bullets.
Document generation on top of China's largest document library
Wenku's AI layer writes reports and decks grounded in its own corpus of Chinese documents, which is both its edge and its limitation.
An AI assistant wired into Chinese office workflows
DingTalk's assistant reads meeting transcripts, drafts messages and queries internal documents inside the company's existing workspace.
Design11
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Template design platform for Chinese marketing
Chuangkit (ๅๅฎข่ดด) offers a huge Chinese template library for posters, cards, decks and e-commerce images with drag-and-drop editing.
Chinese designer community
Community for design professionals and enthusiasts offering learning, showcase, jobs and marketplace features.
UI design in the browser
Online UI design tool with real-time collaboration, a large resource library and Sketch file compatibility.
A Figma-compatible design tool that runs inside China
Pixso is a browser design tool with Figma-grade features and mainland hosting, which matters for teams that cannot rely on Figma's access.
Enterprise product design
Browser-based design platform for UI/UX teams covering interfaces, prototypes, design systems and collaboration.
Prototyping and design handoff with AI-assisted layouts
Mockplus is a Chinese prototyping suite โ wireframes, interactive prototypes and handoff โ with AI that drafts screens from a description.
Design templates for everything
Creative platform with cutout, image and video editing, rรฉsumรฉ and slide design, WeChat graphics and e-commerce images, exportable as PNG, JPG or PDF.
Search8
Chinese AI search with academic and deep-research modes
Metaso (็งๅกAIๆ็ดข) answers in Chinese with structured reports, offering academic, encyclopaedia and deep-research modes.
360's generative search with multimodal input
N.cn (็บณ็ฑณๆ็ดข) accepts text, voice, photo and video input and returns generated answers with sources.
Answers without ads
Zhihu's large-model search product, giving fast, precise, ad-free answers for learning and professional questions.
A search API built for Chinese-language AI grounding
Bocha provides web search results tuned for LLM grounding in Chinese, covering sites that Western search APIs index poorly.
Academic search and insight
Research platform that indexes papers, patents and scientific data and adds analysis tools for researchers.
Alibaba's AI search app
Multi-purpose AI search app from Alibaba that bundles a browser, cloud storage and a set of daily utilities.
Business and company lookup
Business search tool for company due diligence, industry analysis and opportunity discovery.
Translation5
Bilingual web pages and PDFs side by side
Immersive Translate renders a second language under every paragraph on a page or PDF, using whichever engine you prefer.
Fast, accurate translation
Translation tool from Caiyun Tech covering many language pairs.
The standard ChineseโEnglish translator and dictionary
Youdao combines neural translation with dictionary entries, example sentences and document translation for ChineseโEnglish work.
Real-time conversation
Tencent's real-time conversation translator for Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and more, aimed at travel and language practice.
Documents that keep their layout
Online document translation for PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint across 22 formats and 60+ language pairs, preserving the original layout.
Business7
JD's commerce AI: digital humans, customer service and product copy
Yanxi packages the AI JD built for its own marketplace โ synthetic presenters, customer-service agents and listing copy โ for outside merchants.
Names for brands and accounts
AI naming tool for companies, trademarks, shops and social accounts, free to try.
Ask a question, get a chart
Analytics assistant that instruments data, queries it and builds charts from a plain-language question.
Literature, translation and reviews
Research assistant with multi-discipline search, document translation, AI literature reviews and Zotero management.
Lift app subscription revenue
SaaS tool for app developers with competitor analysis and data-driven suggestions to improve subscription conversion.
An AI analyst for stocks
Investment research agent for A-share, Hong Kong and US markets, with candlestick analysis, capital-flow tracking and strategy backtesting.
Platform9
All 9 โKimi's models by API, with long context as the selling point
The developer platform behind Kimi, exposing Moonshot's long-context models with an OpenAI-compatible interface.
Alibaba's model platform: every Qwen variant behind one API
Bailian is where Qwen models are actually sold โ text, vision, audio and video, plus hosted open-weight alternatives, all on Alibaba Cloud billing.
ByteDance's model platform, home of the Doubao models
Ark serves the Doubao model family plus third-party open models, with aggressive pricing and tight integration into ByteDance's cloud.
API access to MiniMax text, speech and video models
MiniMax sells its M-series language models and its unusually good speech and video models through one developer platform.
Inference API for open models, priced in CNY per token
SiliconFlow hosts open-weight models โ DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, image and video models โ behind one OpenAI-compatible API.
Alibaba's model community
Model hub from Alibaba's DAMO Academy with exploration, inference, training, deployment and application services.
Agents for enterprises
Agent platform covering natural-language processing, custom model training and data analysis for enterprise automation.
Dev Frameworks4
Speech and interaction SDKs
Developer platform with speech-enhancement SDKs, voice interaction solutions and app analytics for assistants, outbound calling and in-car use.
End-to-end ML platform
Google's open-source machine-learning platform with an ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources.
Huawei's deep-learning framework
Open-source framework optimised for Ascend processors, covering development and deployment across scenarios.
Learning2
The dictionary Chinese students actually use, now with AI writing help
Youdao combines a dictionary, translation and an AI writing assistant, and is the default reference tool for Chinese learners of English.
Access notes were checked in October 2026 by loading each site from outside mainland China. Login requirements and payment options change often โ if you find an entry that no longer matches, the tool page links straight to the official site so you can confirm before signing up.