41 AI APIs China builders use instead of (or alongside) Baidu AI.
- ๐ OpenAI API ~ GPT models, embeddings, images, audio OpenAI ยท paid
- ๐ Anthropic Claude API ~ Claude LLM messages Anthropic ยท paid
- ๐ Google Gemini API ~ multimodal LLM Google ยท freemium
- ๐ Groq API ~ fast LLM inference Groq ยท freemium
- ๐ Mistral AI API ~ open and frontier LLMs Mistral AI ยท freemium
- ๐ Cohere API ~ LLMs, embeddings, rerank Cohere ยท freemium
- ๐ Perplexity API ~ web-grounded answers and search Perplexity ยท paid
- ๐ OpenRouter API ~ one endpoint for many LLMs OpenRouter ยท freemium
- ๐ Hugging Face Inference Providers ~ run open models Hugging Face ยท freemium
- ๐ Replicate API ~ run and host ML models Replicate ยท paid
- ๐ ElevenLabs API ~ text-to-speech and voices ElevenLabs ยท freemium
- ๐ AssemblyAI API ~ speech-to-text and audio AI AssemblyAI ยท freemium
- ๐ Deepgram API ~ speech-to-text and audio Deepgram ยท freemium
- ๐ Stability AI API ~ Stable Diffusion image generation Stability AI ยท paid
- ๐ fal.ai API ~ fast generative media models fal ยท paid
- ๐ Black Forest Labs FLUX API ~ image generation and editing Black Forest Labs ยท paid
- ๐ Together AI API ~ open-model LLM inference Together AI ยท paid
- ๐ Higgsfield API ~ image, video and audio generation Higgsfield ยท paid
- ๐ฒ๐พ xAI Grok API xAI ยท paid
- ๐ฒ๐พ DeepSeek API DeepSeek ยท freemium
- ๐ฒ๐พ HeyGen AI Avatar Video HeyGen ยท paid
- ๐ฒ๐พ Hedra Talking Avatar API Hedra ยท paid
- ๐ฒ๐พ PlayHT Text-to-Speech & Voice Cloning Play.ai ยท freemium
- ๐ฒ๐พ Cartesia Ultra-Low-Latency TTS & STT Cartesia ยท freemium
- ๐ฒ๐พ Luma AI Dream Machine Video & Image Luma AI ยท paid
- ๐ฒ๐พ Runway ML AI Video Generation Runway ยท paid
- ๐ฒ๐พ Ideogram Image Generation Ideogram ยท paid
- ๐ฒ๐พ Recraft AI Image & Vector Generation Recraft ยท paid
- ๐ฒ๐พ Gladia Speech-to-Text API Gladia ยท freemium
- ๐ฒ๐พ Speechmatics Speech-to-Text Speechmatics ยท freemium
- ๐ฒ๐พ Kling AI Video Generation Kuaishou Technology ยท paid
- ๐ฎ๐ฉ Kata.ai ~ Bahasa Indonesia conversational AI & chatbot Kata.ai ยท paid
- ๐ป๐ณ FPT.AI ~ Vietnamese speech, OCR and NLP APIs FPT Smart Cloud ยท freemium
- ๐ฎ๐ณ Sarvam AI ~ Indian-language LLM, speech & translate Sarvam AI ยท freemium
- ๐จ๐ญ Infomaniak ~ sovereign Swiss-hosted LLM AI API Infomaniak Network SA ยท paid
- ๐จ๐ณ iFlytek ~ speech recognition, TTS & voice AI iFlytek (่ฎฏ้ฃๅผๆพๅนณๅฐ) ยท freemium
- ๐จ๐ณ Baidu Translate ~ machine translation API Baidu ยท freemium
- ๐ฎ๐ณ Reverie ~ Indian-language translation, TTS & STT Reverie Language Technologies ยท freemium
- ๐ฎ๐ณ Bhashini ~ Indian-language translation, ASR & TTS Bhashini (Digital India Bhashini Division) ยท free
- ๐ฐ๐ท Papago ~ neural machine translation API Naver Cloud Platform ยท freemium
- ๐ฐ๐ท CLOVA OCR ~ Korean document text extraction Naver Cloud Platform ยท paid