中 China Alternatives

Chinese alternatives to Gemini

4 China-built Google's models options.

ERNIE 文心一言
alternative to GPT / Gemini
Open source — repository on the product page

Baidu's ERNIE model family; open-weight (4.5) and API.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#6 open weights Apache 2.0
Qwen 通义千问
alternative to GPT / Gemini / Llama / Mistral
Open source — repository on the product page

Alibaba's Apache-licensed Qwen3.8 open-weight family for multimodal, coding and agentic work.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#2 open weights Apache 2.0 256K ctx
Hunyuan 混元
alternative to GPT / Gemini
Open source — repository on the product page

Tencent's Hunyuan models (text, image, 3D); some open weights.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#7 open weights Custom
Doubao 豆包
alternative to ChatGPT / Gemini

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

  • Closed
  • AI stack
#8 api