Chinese AI models are 10-50x cheaper and closing the quality gap fast.

DeepSeek V3.2 rivals GPT-4o at $0.28/M input. Qwen3.5-Plus gives you 1M context for $0.11/M. But the docs are in Chinese, some need a Chinese phone number, and content gets filtered. We sort through all of it so you don't have to.

Browse Models Compare Pricing

Why developers are switching

10-50x
cheaper than GPT-4o / Claude Sonnet on input tokens
61%
of OpenRouter tokens now go to Chinese models
OpenAI-compatible
drop-in replacement — change the base URL and you're done

Featured Models

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DeepSeek chat

DeepSeek V3.2

Current default model behind deepseek-chat API endpoint. Non-thinking mode.

In: $0.28/M Out: $0.42/M
DeepSeek reasoning

DeepSeek R1

Original R1 reasoning model (Jan 2025). Comparable to OpenAI o1. 96% cheaper than o1.

In: $0.55/M Out: $2.19/M
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen chat

Qwen3.5-Plus

Latest Qwen flagship. Native multimodal. Performance comparable to Qwen3-Max at lower cost. Hybrid Gated DeltaNet + MoE architecture. Apache 2.0 open-source.

In: $0.11/M Out: $0.66/M
Moonshot AI chat

Kimi K2.5

Latest Kimi flagship. Native multimodal. 75% automatic cache discount. OpenAI-compatible SDK. Modified MIT license (open-source).

In: $0.6/M Out: $2.5/M
Zhipu AI chat

GLM-5

Zhipu's flagship. First Chinese public AI company's frontier model. 92.7% AIME 2026 I, 86.0% GPQA-Diamond. Also available internationally at docs.z.ai.

In: $1/M Out: $3.2/M
MiniMax chat

MiniMax M2.5

Lightning variant ($0.30/$2.40) available for higher throughput (100 tok/s vs 50 tok/s). Open-source on HuggingFace. Apache 2.0.

In: $0.3/M Out: $1.2/M

All Models at a Glance

Sorted by provider. Prices are per 1M tokens in USD.

Model Provider Input Output Context Type Access
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek $0.28 $0.42 128K chat Direct
DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) DeepSeek $0.28 $0.42 128K reasoning Direct
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale DeepSeek $0.4 $1.2 164K reasoning Direct
DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek $0.55 $2.19 131K reasoning Direct
DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek $0.45 $2.15 131K reasoning Direct
DeepSeek Prover V2 DeepSeek $0.5 $2.18 164K reasoning Direct
Qwen3.5-Plus Alibaba Cloud / Qwen $0.11 $0.66 1000K chat Direct
Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba Cloud / Qwen $0.028 $0.275 1000K chat Direct
Qwen3-Max Alibaba Cloud / Qwen $0.34 $1.37 262K chat Direct
Qwen3-Plus Alibaba Cloud / Qwen $0.07 $0.28 131K chat Direct
Qwen3-Turbo Alibaba Cloud / Qwen $0.007 $0.028 131K chat Direct
Qwen3 VL 235B Alibaba Cloud / Qwen $0.26 $0.9 131K vision Direct
Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI $0.6 $2.5 256K chat Direct
Kimi K2 Moonshot AI $0.6 $2.5 256K chat Direct
Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI $0.47 $2 256K reasoning Direct
GLM-5 Zhipu AI $1 $3.2 205K chat Direct
GLM-4.7 Zhipu AI $0.6 $2.2 128K chat Direct
GLM-4.7-Flash Zhipu AI Free Free 128K free Direct
ERNIE 4.5 Baidu $0.55 $2.2 128K chat Limited
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo Baidu $0.11 $0.44 128K chat Limited
ERNIE X1 Baidu $0.28 $1.1 — reasoning Limited
MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax $0.3 $1.2 205K chat Direct
ERNIE 5.0 Baidu $0.83 $3.31 128K chat Limited
GLM-5-Code Zhipu AI $1.2 $5 — coding Direct

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