Chinese AI Tools: A Complete Directory
A hand-checked directory of Chinese AI tools — chat, image, video, coding and productivity. What each does, what it costs, and which are free. Tools marked “on this site” run right here on China AI Tools; the rest link to their official sites.
Chat
The chatbots and LLM assistants most people in China actually use. All of them answer in English as well as Chinese.
| Tool | What it does | Free? | Official site |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek | Open-weight reasoning chatbot and low-cost API — the one that reset expectations for Chinese AI. | Free chat; very cheap API | chat.deepseek.com |
| Qwen | Alibaba's flagship LLM family — chat, vision, and many open-weight sizes. | Free | qwen.ai |
| Kimi | Moonshot AI's assistant, best known for very long document handling. | Free | kimi.com |
| ChatGLM | Zhipu's assistant built on the GLM models — chat, agents, and document QA. | Free tier | chatglm.cn |
| Doubao | ByteDance's consumer assistant — the most-used AI app in China. | Free | doubao.com |
| ERNIE Bot | Baidu's Wenxiaoyan assistant with search integration. | Free tier | yiyan.baidu.com |
| MiniMax Agent | General-purpose agent from MiniMax — chat, research, and multi-step tasks. | Free tier | minimax.io |
Image
Text-to-image and photo-editing tools. Seedream runs on this site — open the text to image tool or edit with references in image to image.
| Tool | What it does | Free? | Official site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seedream | ByteDance's image models — strong consistency and up to 14 reference images. | Free trial on this site | chinaai.tools |
| Z-Image | Alibaba's fast open-source image model — about a second per image, bilingual text. | Open source | huggingface.co |
| Kolors | Kuaishou's text-to-image model with a polished hosted studio. | Free | kolors.kuaishou.com |
| Hunyuan Image | Tencent's image model line, released with open weights. | Open source | hunyuan.tencent.com |
| Tongyi Wanxiang | Alibaba's image studio inside the Tongyi portal — generation and editing. | Free tier | tongyi.aliyun.com |
| Dreamina (Jimeng) | ByteDance's consumer creative studio for images and video. | Free tier | dreamina.capcut.com |
| LiblibAI | Community model hub with hosted generation — the largest LoRA library in China. | Free tier | liblib.art |
| WHEE | Meitu's AI image studio for product and portrait work. | Freemium | whee.com |
Video
Video-generation models and studios. Kling, Seedance and Wan also run on this site in text to video and image to video.
| Tool | What it does | Free? | Official site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kling | Kuaishou's flagship video model — 4K output and multi-shot AI Director. | Free daily credits | app.klingai.com |
| Seedance | ByteDance's video model line — native audio plus image, video and audio references. | Free trial on this site | chinaai.tools |
| Wan | Alibaba's video model series — reference-guided generation, open weights for earlier versions. | Free tier; open versions | tongyi.aliyun.com |
| Hailuo (MiniMax) | Popular consumer video generator from MiniMax with strong subject consistency. | Free tier | hailuoai.video |
| Vidu | Shengshu's video generator — fast drafts and character-consistent references. | Free tier | vidu.com |
| PixVerse | Quick text-to-video with camera controls and effects templates. | Free tier | pixverse.ai |
| Hunyuan Video | Tencent's open-weight video model for self-hosted pipelines. | Open source | github.com |
Coding & Productivity
Developer models, coding plans, IDEs and office AI — where Chinese labs compete hardest on price.
| Tool | What it does | Free? | Official site |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek API | Frontier-class coding and reasoning API at a fraction of US pricing. | Pay as you go | platform.deepseek.com |
| Qwen3-Coder | Alibaba's dedicated coding model — open weights you can self-host. | Open weights | huggingface.co |
| GLM Coding Plan | Zhipu's flat-rate coding subscription that works with common agent tools. | Paid; trial credits | z.ai |
| Kimi K2 API | Moonshot's open agentic model — strong at tool use and long tasks. | Open weights; paid API | platform.moonshot.ai |
| Trae | ByteDance's AI IDE — agentic editing, free during its growth push. | Free | trae.ai |
| Tongyi Lingma | Alibaba's IDE assistant plugin — completion, chat, and repo Q&A. | Free | lingma.aliyun.com |
| Manus | General AI agent that plans and executes multi-step work end to end. | Freemium | manus.im |
| WPS AI | Kingsoft's office-suite AI — documents, slides, and spreadsheets. | Freemium | ai.wps.cn |
How We Test
Every entry in this directory is checked by hand: we open each tool, verify the official domain, confirm whether an English interface exists, and test whether a free tier or trial is actually usable without a Chinese phone number. “Free” means you can meaningfully use the tool today without paying — not a demo that stops after one click.
Entries hosted on this site are marked as such. For everything else we link out to the official product so you can verify features and pricing yourself. If a tool drops its free tier or changes access, we update the entry — see something out of date, tell us via the about page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Try the image and video tools on this site
Seedream, Kling, Seedance and Wan all run on China AI Tools — free credits for new accounts.