中 China Alternatives

Chinese alternatives to ChatGPT

5 China-built AI chat assistant options.

DeepSeek 深度求索
alternative to OpenAI GPT / Claude
Open source — repository on the product page

MIT-licensed open-weight multimodal reasoning models, led by V4.1 Flash.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#1 open weights MIT 1M ctx
QwenWork 千问办公
alternative to Meta Muse / OpenAI dots / Grok Bot / Microsoft Copilot

Alibaba's AI work platform for research, documents, data, websites, skills, connectors and scheduled agent tasks.

  • Closed
  • AI stack
chat app
Tencent WorkBuddy 腾讯 WorkBuddy
alternative to Microsoft Copilot / Meta Muse / OpenAI dots / Grok Bot

Full-scenario AI office workspace from Tencent Cloud that plans and executes tasks across documents, spreadsheets, code, design, local files and multi-agent workflows.

  • Closed
  • AI stack
chat app
Kimi 月之暗面
alternative to OpenAI / Claude / Meta Muse / dots / Grok Bot
Open source — repository on the product page

Moonshot's Kimi combines K3 chat and open weights with Agent, Work, Code, Swarm and the always-on Kimi Claw.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#3 open weights Kimi K3 License 1M ctx
Doubao 豆包
alternative to ChatGPT / Gemini

ByteDance's model family and consumer assistant; API via Volcano Engine.

  • Closed
  • AI stack
#8 api