中 China Alternatives

Chinese alternatives to Claude

4 China-built AI assistant (Anthropic) options.

GLM (Z.ai) 智谱
alternative to GPT / Claude
Open source — repository on the product page

Zhipu's Apache-licensed GLM-5.3 open-weight models for coding and long-horizon agents.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#4 open weights Apache 2.0 1M ctx
MiniMax 稀宇科技
alternative to GPT / Claude
Open source — repository on the product page

MiniMax M2.7 open weights for coding and agentic work; commercial deployment needs authorization.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#5 open weights MiniMax M2.7 Non-Commercial License 1M ctx
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
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