Compare the Top Large Language Models in China as of October 2026

What are Large Language Models in China?

Large language models are artificial neural networks used to process and understand natural language. Commonly trained on large datasets, they can be used for a variety of tasks such as text generation, text classification, question answering, and machine translation. Over time, these models have continued to improve, allowing for better accuracy and greater performance on a variety of tasks. Compare and read user reviews of the best Large Language Models in China currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Nemotron 3 Ultra
    Nemotron 3 Nano is a compact, open large language model in NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 family, designed for efficient agentic reasoning, conversational AI, and coding tasks. It uses a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts Mamba-Transformer architecture that activates only a small subset of parameters per token, enabling low-latency inference while maintaining strong accuracy and reasoning performance. It has approximately 31.6 billion total parameters with around 3.2 billion active (3.6 billion including embeddings), allowing it to achieve higher accuracy than previous Nemotron 2 Nano while using less computation per forward pass. Nemotron 3 Nano supports long-context processing of up to one million tokens, enabling it to handle large documents, multi-step workflows, and extended reasoning chains in a single pass. It is designed for high-throughput, real-time execution, excelling in multi-turn conversations, tool calling, and agent-based workflows where tasks require planning, reasoning, and more.
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    Qwen

    Qwen

    Alibaba

    Qwen is a powerful, free AI assistant built on the advanced Qwen model series, designed to help anyone with creativity, research, problem-solving, and everyday tasks. While Qwen Chat is the main interface for most users, Qwen itself powers a broad range of intelligent capabilities including image generation, deep research, website creation, advanced reasoning, and context-aware search. Its multimodal intelligence enables Qwen to understand and process text, images, audio, and video simultaneously for richer insights. Qwen is available on web, desktop, and mobile, ensuring seamless access across all devices. For developers, the Qwen API provides OpenAI-compatible endpoints, making integration simple and allowing Qwen’s intelligence to power apps, services, and automation. Whether you're chatting through Qwen Chat or building with the Qwen API, Qwen delivers fast, flexible, and highly capable AI support.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Octave TTS

    Octave TTS

    Hume AI

    Hume AI has introduced Octave (Omni-capable Text and Voice Engine), a groundbreaking text-to-speech system that leverages large language model technology to understand and interpret the context of words, enabling it to generate speech with appropriate emotions, rhythm, and cadence, unlike traditional TTS models that merely read text, Octave acts akin to a human actor, delivering lines with nuanced expression based on the content. Users can create diverse AI voices by providing descriptive prompts, such as "a sarcastic medieval peasant," allowing for tailored voice generation that aligns with specific character traits or scenarios. Additionally, Octave offers the flexibility to modify the emotional delivery and speaking style through natural language instructions, enabling commands like "sound more enthusiastic" or "whisper fearfully" to fine-tune the output.
    Starting Price: $3 per month
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    QwQ-32B

    QwQ-32B

    Alibaba

    ​QwQ-32B is an advanced reasoning model developed by Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team, designed to enhance AI's problem-solving capabilities. With 32 billion parameters, it achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art models like DeepSeek's R1, which has 671 billion parameters. This efficiency is achieved through optimized parameter utilization, allowing QwQ-32B to perform complex tasks such as mathematical reasoning, coding, and general problem-solving with fewer resources. The model supports a context length of up to 32,000 tokens, enabling it to process extensive input data effectively. QwQ-32B is accessible via Alibaba's chatbot service, Qwen Chat, and is open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, promoting collaboration and further development within the AI community.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Mistral Small 3.1
    ​Mistral Small 3.1 is a state-of-the-art, multimodal, and multilingual AI model released under the Apache 2.0 license. Building upon Mistral Small 3, this enhanced version offers improved text performance, and advanced multimodal understanding, and supports an expanded context window of up to 128,000 tokens. It outperforms comparable models like Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini, delivering inference speeds of 150 tokens per second. Designed for versatility, Mistral Small 3.1 excels in tasks such as instruction following, conversational assistance, image understanding, and function calling, making it suitable for both enterprise and consumer-grade AI applications. Its lightweight architecture allows it to run efficiently on a single RTX 4090 or a Mac with 32GB RAM, facilitating on-device deployments. It is available for download on Hugging Face, accessible via Mistral AI's developer playground, and integrated into platforms likeGemini Enterprise Agent Platform, with availability on NVIDIA NIM.
    Starting Price: Free
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    GLM-4.5-Air
    Z.ai is a free AI assistant that brings presentations, writing, and coding into one conversational interface. Leveraging large language models, it lets you generate polished slide decks with AI slides, craft professional‑grade text for emails, reports, or blogs, and write or debug complex code. Beyond content creation, Z.ai supports deep research and information search, helping you gather facts, summarize long documents, and overcome writer’s block, while its code agent can explain snippets, refactor functions, or build scripts from scratch. An intuitive chat interface means no steep learning curves: simply tell Z.ai what you need, a strategic deck, marketing copy, or a data‑analysis script, and get instant, contextually relevant results. With support for multiple languages (including Chinese), native function calling, and up to 128K token context length, Z.ai handles everything from brainstorming ideas to automating repetitive writing or coding.
    Starting Price: Free
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    DeepSeek V3.1
    DeepSeek V3.1 is a groundbreaking open-weight large language model featuring a massive 685-billion parameters and an extended 128,000‑token context window, enabling it to process documents equivalent to 400-page books in a single prompt. It delivers integrated capabilities for chat, reasoning, and code generation within a unified hybrid architecture, seamlessly blending these functions into one coherent model. V3.1 supports a variety of tensor formats to give developers flexibility in optimizing performance across different hardware. Early benchmark results show robust performance, including a 71.6% score on the Aider coding benchmark, putting it on par with or ahead of systems like Claude Opus 4 and doing so at a far lower cost. Made available under an open source license on Hugging Face with minimal fanfare, DeepSeek V3.1 is poised to reshape access to high-performance AI, challenging traditional proprietary models.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Gemini Enterprise
    Gemini Enterprise app is an advanced AI-powered platform that brings Google’s AI capabilities to every employee, enabling organizations to automate workflows, analyze data, and create high-quality content across multiple business functions. It securely connects to tools like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, HubSpot, and Jira, allowing users to search and interact with their business data using natural language. The platform supports prebuilt agents such as NotebookLM and Deep Research, helping teams quickly extract insights and streamline tasks. It also allows users to build custom no-code agents to automate multi-step workflows across different applications. With centralized management, organizations can deploy and monitor all agents from a single interface. Built-in security and governance features ensure data privacy and compliance with enterprise standards. Overall, Gemini Enterprise app enhances productivity by combining AI automation with secure data integration.
    Starting Price: $21 per month
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    Claude Haiku 4.5
    Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 4.5, its latest small-language model designed to deliver near-frontier performance at significantly lower cost. The model provides similar coding and reasoning quality as the company’s mid-tier Sonnet 4, yet it runs at roughly one-third of the cost and more than twice the speed. In benchmarks cited by Anthropic, Haiku 4.5 meets or exceeds Sonnet 4’s performance in key tasks such as code generation and multi-step “computer use” workflows. It is optimized for real-time, low-latency scenarios such as chat assistants, customer service agents, and pair-programming support. Haiku 4.5 is made available via the Claude API under the identifier “claude-haiku-4-5” and supports large-scale deployments where cost, responsiveness, and near-frontier intelligence matter. Claude Haiku 4.5 is available now on Claude Code and our apps. Its efficiency means you can accomplish more within your usage limits while maintaining premium model performance.
    Starting Price: $1 per million input tokens
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    Ministral 3

    Ministral 3

    Mistral AI

    Mistral 3 is the latest generation of open-weight AI models from Mistral AI, offering a full family of models, from small, edge-optimized versions to a flagship, large-scale multimodal model. The lineup includes three compact “Ministral 3” models (3B, 8B, and 14B parameters) designed for efficiency and deployment on constrained hardware (even laptops, drones, or edge devices), plus the powerful “Mistral Large 3,” a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 675 billion total parameters (41 billion active). The models support multimodal and multilingual tasks, not only text, but also image understanding, and have demonstrated best-in-class performance on general prompts, multilingual conversations, and multimodal inputs. The base and instruction-fine-tuned versions are released under the Apache 2.0 license, enabling broad customization and integration in enterprise and open source projects.
    Starting Price: Free
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    MiMo-V2-Flash

    MiMo-V2-Flash

    Xiaomi Technology

    MiMo-V2-Flash is an open weight large language model developed by Xiaomi based on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that blends high performance with inference efficiency. It has 309 billion total parameters but activates only 15 billion active parameters per inference, letting it balance reasoning quality and computational efficiency while supporting extremely long context handling, for tasks like long-document understanding, code generation, and multi-step agent workflows. It incorporates a hybrid attention mechanism that interleaves sliding-window and global attention layers to reduce memory usage and maintain long-range comprehension, and it uses a Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) design that accelerates inference by processing batches of tokens in parallel. MiMo-V2-Flash delivers very fast generation speeds (up to ~150 tokens/second) and is optimized for agentic applications requiring sustained reasoning and multi-turn interactions.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Xiaomi MiMo

    Xiaomi MiMo

    Xiaomi Technology

    The Xiaomi MiMo API open platform is a developer-oriented interface for accessing and integrating Xiaomi’s MiMo family of AI models, including reasoning and language models such as MiMo-V2-Flash, into applications and services through standardized APIs and cloud endpoints, enabling developers to build AI-enabled features like conversational agents, reasoning workflows, code assistance, and search-augmented tasks without managing model infrastructure themselves. It offers REST-style API access with authentication, request signing, and structured responses so software can send prompts and receive generated text or processed outputs programmatically, and it supports common operations like text generation, prompt handling, and inference over MiMo models. By providing documentation and onboarding tools, the open platform lets teams integrate Xiaomi’s latest open source large language models, which leverage Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Medical LLM

    Medical LLM

    John Snow Labs

    John Snow Labs' Medical LLM is an advanced, domain-specific large language model (LLM) designed to revolutionize the way healthcare organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence. This innovative platform is tailored specifically for the healthcare industry, combining cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) capabilities with a deep understanding of medical terminology, clinical workflows, and regulatory requirements. The result is a powerful tool that enables healthcare providers, researchers, and administrators to unlock new insights, improve patient outcomes, and drive operational efficiency. At the heart of the Healthcare LLM is its comprehensive training on vast amounts of healthcare data, including clinical notes, research papers, and regulatory documents. This specialized training allows the model to accurately interpret and generate medical text, making it an invaluable asset for tasks such as clinical documentation, automated coding, and medical research.
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    Selene 1
    Atla's Selene 1 API offers state-of-the-art AI evaluation models, enabling developers to define custom evaluation criteria and obtain precise judgments on their AI applications' performance. Selene outperforms frontier models on commonly used evaluation benchmarks, ensuring accurate and reliable assessments. Users can customize evaluations to their specific use cases through the Alignment Platform, allowing for fine-grained analysis and tailored scoring formats. The API provides actionable critiques alongside accurate evaluation scores, facilitating seamless integration into existing workflows. Pre-built metrics, such as relevance, correctness, helpfulness, faithfulness, logical coherence, and conciseness, are available to address common evaluation scenarios, including detecting hallucinations in retrieval-augmented generation applications or comparing outputs to ground truth data.
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    LFM2

    LFM2

    Liquid AI

    LFM2 is a next-generation series of on-device foundation models built to deliver the fastest generative-AI experience across a wide range of endpoints. It employs a new hybrid architecture that achieves up to 2x faster decode and prefill performance than comparable models, and up to 3x improvements in training efficiency compared to the previous generation. These models strike an optimal balance of quality, latency, and memory for deployment on embedded systems, allowing real-time, on-device AI across smartphones, laptops, vehicles, wearables, and other endpoints, enabling millisecond inference, device resilience, and full data sovereignty. Available in three dense checkpoints (0.35 B, 0.7 B, and 1.2 B parameters), LFM2 demonstrates benchmark performance that outperforms similarly sized models in tasks such as knowledge recall, mathematics, multilingual instruction-following, and conversational dialogue evaluations.
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    NVIDIA NeMo
    NVIDIA NeMo LLM is a service that provides a fast path to customizing and using large language models trained on several frameworks. Developers can deploy enterprise AI applications using NeMo LLM on private and public clouds. They can also experience Megatron 530B—one of the largest language models—through the cloud API or experiment via the LLM service. Customize your choice of various NVIDIA or community-developed models that work best for your AI applications. Within minutes to hours, get better responses by providing context for specific use cases using prompt learning techniques. Leverage the power of NVIDIA Megatron 530B, one of the largest language models, through the NeMo LLM Service or the cloud API. Take advantage of models for drug discovery, including in the cloud API and NVIDIA BioNeMo framework.
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    Med-PaLM 2

    Med-PaLM 2

    Google Cloud

    Healthcare breakthroughs change the world and bring hope to humanity through scientific rigor, human insight, and compassion. We believe AI can contribute to this, with thoughtful collaboration between researchers, healthcare organizations, and the broader ecosystem. Today, we're sharing exciting progress on these initiatives, with the announcement of limited access to Google’s medical large language model, or LLM, called Med-PaLM 2. It will be available in the coming weeks to a select group of Google Cloud customers for limited testing, to explore use cases and share feedback as we investigate safe, responsible, and meaningful ways to use this technology. Med-PaLM 2 harnesses the power of Google’s LLMs, aligned to the medical domain to more accurately and safely answer medical questions. As a result, Med-PaLM 2 was the first LLM to perform at an “expert” test-taker level performance on the MedQA dataset of US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)-style questions.
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    DataGemma
    DataGemma represents a pioneering effort by Google to enhance the accuracy and reliability of large language models (LLMs) when dealing with statistical and numerical data. Launched as a set of open models, DataGemma leverages Google's Data Commons, a vast repository of public statistical data—to ground its responses in real-world facts. This initiative employs two innovative approaches: Retrieval Interleaved Generation (RIG) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). The RIG method integrates real-time data checks during the generation process to ensure factual accuracy, while RAG retrieves relevant information before generating responses, thereby reducing the likelihood of AI hallucinations. By doing so, DataGemma aims to provide users with more trustworthy and factually grounded answers, marking a significant step towards mitigating the issue of misinformation in AI-generated content.
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    Yi-Lightning

    Yi-Lightning

    Yi-Lightning

    Yi-Lightning, developed by 01.AI under the leadership of Kai-Fu Lee, represents the latest advancement in large language models with a focus on high performance and cost-efficiency. It boasts a maximum context length of 16K tokens and is priced at $0.14 per million tokens for both input and output, making it remarkably competitive. Yi-Lightning leverages an enhanced Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, incorporating fine-grained expert segmentation and advanced routing strategies, which contribute to its efficiency in training and inference. This model has excelled in various domains, achieving top rankings in categories like Chinese, math, coding, and hard prompts on the chatbot arena, where it secured the 6th position overall and 9th in style control. Its development included comprehensive pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning from human feedback, ensuring both performance and safety, with optimizations in memory usage and inference speed.
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    GLM-4.5
    GLM‑4.5 is Z.ai’s latest flagship model in the GLM family, engineered with 355 billion total parameters (32 billion active) and a companion GLM‑4.5‑Air variant (106 billion total, 12 billion active) to unify advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities in one architecture. It operates in a “thinking” mode for complex, multi‑step reasoning and tool use, and a “non‑thinking” mode for instant responses, supporting up to 128 K token context length and native function calling. Available via the Z.ai chat platform and API, with open weights on HuggingFace and ModelScope, GLM‑4.5 ingests diverse inputs to solve general problem‑solving, common‑sense reasoning, coding from scratch or within existing projects, and end‑to‑end agent workflows such as web browsing and slide generation. Built on a Mixture‑of‑Experts design with loss‑free balance routing, grouped‑query attention, and an MTP layer for speculative decoding, it delivers enterprise‑grade performance.
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    Claude Sonnet 4.5
    Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier model, designed to excel in long-horizon coding, agentic workflows, and intensive computer use while maintaining safety and alignment. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark (for software engineering) and leads on OSWorld (a computer use benchmark), with the ability to sustain focus over 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks. The model introduces improvements in tool handling, memory management, and context processing, enabling more sophisticated reasoning, better domain understanding (from finance and law to STEM), and deeper code comprehension. It supports context editing and memory tools to sustain long conversations or multi-agent tasks, and allows code execution and file creation within Claude apps. Sonnet 4.5 is deployed at AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3), with classifiers protecting against inputs or outputs tied to risky domains, and includes mitigations against prompt injection.
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    Amazon Nova 2 Lite
    Nova 2 Lite is a lightweight, high-speed reasoning model designed to handle everyday AI workloads across text, images, and video. It can generate clear, context-aware responses and lets users fine-tune how much internal reasoning the model performs before producing an answer. This adjustable “thinking depth” gives teams the flexibility to choose faster replies or more detailed problem-solving depending on the task. It stands out for customer service bots, automated document handling, and general business workflow support. Nova 2 Lite delivers strong performance across standard evaluation tests. It performs on par with or better than comparable compact models in most benchmark categories, demonstrating reliable comprehension and response quality. Its strengths include interpreting complex documents, pulling accurate insights from video content, generating usable code, and delivering grounded answers based on provided information.
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    Amazon Nova 2 Omni
    Nova 2 Omni is a fully unified multimodal reasoning and generation model capable of understanding and producing content across text, images, video, and speech. It can take in extremely large inputs, ranging from hundreds of thousands of words to hours of audio and lengthy videos, while maintaining coherent analysis across formats. This allows it to digest full product catalogs, long-form documents, customer testimonials, and complete video libraries all at the same time, giving teams a single system that replaces the need for multiple specialized models. With its ability to handle mixed media in one workflow, Nova 2 Omni opens new possibilities for creative and operational automation. A marketing team, for example, can feed in product specs, brand guidelines, reference images, and video content and instantly generate an entire campaign, including messaging, social content, and visuals, in one pass.
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