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General and specialized, open-source and closed-source, text and multimodal — a one-stop catalog of LLMs from Chinese vendors, with benchmark rankings, API pricing, and deployment hardware references.

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Capability Categories

Organized by model capability — click to enter the corresponding group in the model library

This Month's Updates

New models and major release news (October 2026)

10-17

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Launches: Native Vision Understanding

Switchable thinking / non-thinking modes, 1M context, unchanged APIs and pricing, with weights also released; the same-generation V4-Pro-0813 is a 1.6T total-parameter MoE flagship (MIT open source).

October

Kimi K3.1 Pro Launches with Upgraded Coding and Agentic Capabilities

The K3 series features 2.8T total parameters, Kimi Delta Attention architecture, and native multimodality; K3.1 Pro strengthens coding and long-horizon agents, with a HighSpeed variant offering roughly 3× throughput.

October

GLM-5.3 Now Live: 1M-Context Flagship Reasoning

Z.ai's GLM-5 series has iterated to 5.3: the flagship targets complex software engineering and long-horizon agents; Flash / FlashX offer native multimodality in cost-effective and high-speed tiers, all with 1M context.

May

Qwen3.7-Max Released: Alibaba's Closed-Source Flagship

Built for long-horizon agent work, coding, and complex reasoning; the open-source Qwen3.5 / 3.6 / 3.8 lines continue to iterate, with the Qwen open-source ecosystem leading globally in downloads.

08-13

Tencent Hy4 Preview Open-Sourced: Hybrid-Reasoning MoE

The new Hunyuan preview is available in open weights, targeting coding, agent tool calling, and long contexts; the current Hy3 offers a cost-effective API tier at $0.10/$0.41.

Competitive Tiers at a Glance

Full Benchmark Rankings →
T1Flagship Tier
DeepSeek V4.1-FlashKimi K3.1 ProGLM-5.3Qwen3.7-MaxDoubao Seed 2.1 Pro

Closed and open models compete head-to-head: DeepSeek and Kimi stand in the first tier with open weights, while GLM, Qwen, andDoubao lead in coding and agent scenarios via API flagships.

T2Mainstream Tier
MiniMax M3.1Tencent Hy4 / Hy3ERNIESpark X1Step-3LongCat-Flash

A strong lineup with distinct strengths: MiniMax for long context and video, Tencent Hunyuan for the WeChat ecosystem, iFLYTEK trained on fully domestic compute, and StepFun for multimodal MoE.

T3Specialized Tier
MiniCPM 4.0Ling Ling-1TInternLM3SenseNova V6Tiangong T1

Differentiated routes including on-device, academic, and search-augmented models, serving niche scenario needs.

Pricing & Hardware Gateways

Two things to check when choosing: how much it costs and what it runs on