Chinese AI tools: availability and access by region
Where each model family can be reached from, what endpoints are documented, and what the vendors still do not publish.
This page collects the access and availability facts for the five Chinese AI tools covered in depth on AI-Mind: DeepSeek, Kimi, Doubao, Qwen and Kling AI. Every entry below is taken from the vendor’s own site or documentation and was checked on 2026-09-19. Where a vendor has not published something — a supported-country list, an API price, an English base URL — the table says so rather than filling the gap.
Availability at a glance
| Tool | How you reach it | Documented developer endpoint | Documentation languages | What is not published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek | Free chat product at chat.deepseek.com; developer console at platform.deepseek.com | https://api.deepseek.com (OpenAI-compatible; an Anthropic-format endpoint is also documented) | English and Chinese official documentation | No supported-country list is published; the terms state that availability may differ by jurisdiction. |
| Kimi | kimi.com app plus the developer platform at platform.kimi.com | https://api.moonshot.cn/v1 (OpenAI-compatible) | Chinese docs on platform.kimi.com; English site at platform.moonshot.ai | English pages lag the Chinese ones; a base URL for the English platform is not stated in the pages reviewed. |
| Doubao | doubao.com app (official page states free use after signing in) | https://ark.cn-beijing.volces.com/api/v3 (OpenAI-compatible, mainland China region) | Chinese documentation only, in the pages reviewed | No official English product or documentation site was found; exact free-quota rules are not published. |
| Qwen | qwen.ai (English, described as free to use) and tongyi.com | Compatible-mode endpoints documented for Beijing, Singapore, the United States and Tokyo; the pricing page also lists Germany and Hong Kong | Chinese documentation on Alibaba Cloud Help, plus an English Model Studio documentation site | Base URLs are migrating to workspace-specific domains; older dashscope.aliyuncs.com style URLs still appear in documentation. |
| Kling AI | Global site app.klingai.com/global and mainland site app.klingai.com/cn | Task-based API with API-key (Bearer) authentication; no OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint documented | English and Chinese API documentation | International membership prices could not be captured because the page renders them dynamically; API pricing is not published in the API documentation reviewed. |
How to read this table
- The endpoint column lists what the official documentation shows. It is not a guarantee that you can register and pay from your country.
- Where documentation exists in more than one language, the non-Chinese pages are sometimes older, so model lists and prices can differ between them.
- Kling AI is deliberately included even though it is a video and image generation service rather than a text model: the same availability questions apply, and its integration model is different because the API is asynchronous.
Practical implications
- If you need an endpoint outside mainland China today, Qwen documents the widest set of regions; the others should be treated as mainland-first unless you confirm otherwise with the vendor.
- If you want to reuse existing OpenAI-style code, four of the five tool families are documented as OpenAI-compatible; Kling AI requires create-then-poll task handling instead.
- If English documentation matters for your team, DeepSeek and Kling publish it directly, while Kimi and Qwen have English sites that can lag behind their Chinese pages.
- Prices and free allowances are region- and model-specific. The per-tool pricing pages on this site list the figures each vendor publishes, with sources, and always link back to the vendor page.
Frequently asked questions
- Which Chinese AI APIs document endpoints outside mainland China?
In the documentation reviewed here, Qwen is the clearest case: Alibaba Cloud documents compatible-mode endpoints for Beijing, Singapore, the United States and Tokyo, and its pricing page also lists Germany and Hong Kong. The other four tools documented on this site describe mainland endpoints or region-specific platforms; their international availability is not stated in the pages reviewed. - Do these APIs work with the OpenAI SDK?
DeepSeek, Kimi, Doubao and Qwen are all documented as OpenAI-compatible, so existing OpenAI-style client code can usually be reused with a different base URL and model ID. Kling AI is the exception: its API is task-based media generation with API-key authentication, and no OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint is documented. - Is English documentation available?
DeepSeek and Kling AI publish English and Chinese documentation. Kimi and Qwen both have English-facing sites and documentation, though the English pages reviewed lagged the Chinese ones. For Doubao, only Chinese documentation was found in the pages reviewed. - Can I use these models from outside China?
That depends on the vendor and is not always stated officially. What is documented is the technical side: which endpoints exist and in which regions. The commercial side, including account registration requirements and payment methods per country, is frequently not published, so treat it as unconfirmed until you check the vendor’s own terms for your jurisdiction.
Facts on this page were checked against the official pages linked above on 2026-09-19. Prices and model IDs change frequently: confirm them on the vendor’s own pricing page before you rely on them.