Chinese AI tools
The best AI tools built by Chinese teams — DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Doubao, Kling, Jimeng and more, ranked by rating.
Ranked by our editorial rating · Updated 2026 · 17 tools
DeepSeek
Chat assistant
Open-source, high-value Chinese LLMs. The V4 family brings much stronger agent skills, and API pricing remains the cheapest in class.
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通义千问
Chat assistant
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 large language model family — fully open-source, with strong reasoning, multilingual and multimodal abilities.
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Kimi
Chat assistant
Moonshot AI's assistant, known for ultra-long context handling; the K3 flagship was open-sourced in July 2026.
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可灵
Video tool
Kuaishou's AI video generation model with excellent motion and quality, strong at Chinese prompts and value.
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豆包
Chat assistant
ByteDance's AI assistant — #1 in China and #2 globally by MAU, multimodal and free.
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秘塔搜索
Chat assistant
Metaso AI search — ad-free with structured output, great for academic and deep research.
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Manus
AI agent
A general AI agent that autonomously plans and completes multi-step tasks end to end.
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即梦
Image generation
ByteDance's AI image and video creation tool — Chinese-friendly and easy to use.
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海螺
Video tool
MiniMax's AI video model with large motion range and strong instruction following.
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Coze
Dev platform
ByteDance's AI agent development platform to build and publish bots and workflows with no code.
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文心助手（原文心一言）
Chat assistant
Baidu's Chinese LLM assistant, strong at Chinese and local services.
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腾讯元宝
Chat assistant
Tencent's AI assistant with Hunyuan + DeepSeek models, deeply tied to WeChat.
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智谱清言
Chat assistant
Zhipu AI's assistant built on the GLM model series, balanced at Chinese and reasoning.
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天工 Skywork
AI agent
Kunlun's AI agent, strong at deep research, documents and local office automation.
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MiniMax
Chat assistant
MiniMax's flagship model family: M3 leads with top-tier coding and a 1M-token context, plus multimodal models for video, speech and music.
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Hunyuan3D
3D generation
Tencent's open-source 3D generation model — text/image to 3D, with a globally available Tencent Cloud API.
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Talkie
Chat assistant
MiniMax's AI companion app — chat by text or voice with AI characters, create your own; second only to Character.AI in global downloads.
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FAQ
What are the best Chinese AI tools?
Our top-rated picks are DeepSeek, 通义千问, Kimi, 可灵, 豆包. Each tool is reviewed above with its pros, cons, pricing and an overall rating.
How are these Chinese AI tools ranked?
Every tool gets one editorial score from 0 to 5, and the list is ordered by that score. The score is our own judgement — not a user rating, and not an average of separately measured dimensions. Features and prices are checked against each vendor's own pages.