Chinese AI Models: Labs, Routes & Where Prompts Go
Chinese-lab models in the catalog, the providers that serve each one, and how to run those weights on a US-operated route instead of the vendor endpoint.
A Chinese model does not mean China-bound traffic. Those are two different facts, and you choose the second one.
237 models in the TrustedRouter catalog were built by one of the 12 labs recorded as Chinese: Alibaba (Qwen), Z.ai (GLM), DeepSeek, ByteDance (Seed, Doubao), MiniMax, Moonshot AI (Kimi), Tencent (Hunyuan), Xiaomi (MiMo), Ant Group (inclusionAI: Ling, Ring), Baidu (ERNIE), Kuaishou (Kwaipilot KAT), StepFun. Every model below is grouped under the lab that built it, with its source.
Where your prompt goes is a separate decision, made per request. Most of these are open-weights models, so other companies serve them: 43 of the 95 providers in the catalog are US-headquartered, and the "US-operated routes" column below names the ones serving each model. Route to one of those and your prompt reaches that provider, not the lab. Route to the vendor's own API and it reaches a China-headquartered operator — 5 of the providers here.
The lab a model came from and the operator of each of its routes are recorded in separate catalog tables, and neither is derived from the other. Read both before deciding.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1",
api_key="sk-tr-...", # your TrustedRouter key
)
# Chinese-built weights, US-operated endpoint:
# jurisdiction narrows routing to providers whose
# recorded operator country is the United States,
# and fails closed if none qualify.
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro",
messages=[{"role": "user",
"content": "Refactor this handler."}],
extra_body={"provider": {"jurisdiction": "us"}},
)Where the brand and the operator come apart
read the row, not the logoThe provider table below lists 5 providers operated from China. Some familiar Chinese AI brands are not among them, and that is the point of recording operators rather than brands.
- Z.aiThe api.z.ai service is operated by a Singapore-registered company under Singapore law, per Z.AI's own terms of use, so it is recorded under Singapore. The GLM weights it serves come from a Beijing lab, and appear under Z.ai (GLM) in the lab sections below.
- KimiThe Kimi OpenPlatform behind api.moonshot.ai is operated by MOONSHOT AI PTE. LTD. in Singapore, per the platform's own privacy policy, which also states storage on servers in Singapore. Moonshot AI, the lab that trained the weights, is in Beijing and appears in the lab sections below.
- MiniMaxThe MiniMax Open Platform behind api.minimax.io is operated by Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., Singapore, under Singapore law, per its terms of service. The lab is Chinese; the operator of the endpoint we route to is not.
- SiliconFlowThe api.siliconflow.com platform is operated by a Singapore-registered company under Singapore law, per its terms of service. Its separate China platform is not the endpoint TrustedRouter routes to.
- Providers with no operator recorded29 providers publish no operating entity TrustedRouter could establish. They are in no jurisdiction list on this site, and no request preference treats them as matching one, because the conservative reading of a missing country is that it does not match.
Two separate facts: who operates the endpoint, and who built the model.
Counts below are read from the routes configured in TrustedRouter right now. Operator country is the legal home of the company running the endpoint a request reaches, taken from that company's own terms, privacy policy, or regulatory filing. It is not a claim about which datacentre serves the request.
Providers operated from China
5 of 95Send a request to one of these and the operator is a company headquartered in China — head office, not place of registration. Privacy tier is a separate column: it is the highest bar we have recorded from that provider's published policy.
| Provider | Operator country | Privacy tier | Recorded claims | Models served | Policy source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studioalibaba | China | Standard | no verified privacy claim | 77 | policy |
| DeepSeekdeepseek | China | Standard | no verified privacy claim | 6 | policy |
| StepFunstepfun | China | Standard | no verified privacy claim | 3 | policy |
| Kling AIkling | China | Standard | no verified privacy claim | 2 | policy |
| Xiaomi MiMoxiaomi | China | Standard | no verified privacy claim | 2 | policy |
Every provider's full policy note and route list is on its own page. 29 providers in the catalog publish no operator TrustedRouter could pin down, so they appear in no jurisdiction list on this site and no request preference treats them as matching one. Review every provider.
Models built by Chinese labs
237 modelsGrouped by the lab that built the weights, with the source TrustedRouter read that from. The operator columns show who runs the endpoints for each route, which is a different question from the lab's country and frequently a different answer.
Alibaba (Qwen) 112 models
Alibaba Cloud states it provides the Qwen model series to the open-source community; Alibaba Group Holding Limited gives its principal executive offices as Hangzhou, China (https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/faqs-corporate-information). Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
qwen/qwen3.8-27bQwen: Qwen3.8 27B |
262,144 | 19 |
United States ×9
Israel ×1
Italy ×1
operator not established ×3
|
+3 more on the model page |
qwen/qwen3.5-397b-a17bQwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B |
262,144 | 17 |
United States ×9
China ×1
France ×1
|
+3 more on the model page |
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B |
262,144 | 17 |
United States ×7
China ×1
France ×1
Singapore ×1
operator not established ×3
|
+1 more on the model page |
qwen/qwen3.6-27bQwen: Qwen3.6 27B |
262,144 | 14 |
United States ×7
Singapore ×1
operator not established ×1
|
+1 more on the model page |
qwen/qwen3.5-122b-a10bQwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
262,144 | 12 |
United States ×5
China ×1
Italy ×1
Singapore ×1
|
|
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instructQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct |
262,144 | 10 |
United States ×5
China ×1
operator not established ×1
|
106 further Alibaba (Qwen) models are in the catalog, ranked below these by route count. Browse every model.
Z.ai (GLM) 29 models
The GLM family comes from the Beijing-headquartered lab that renamed itself Z.ai in 2025, formerly Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. The API TrustedRouter routes to is operated by a Singapore entity (see the zai provider row), which is a separate fact. Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
z-ai/glm-5.2Z.ai: GLM 5.2 |
1,048,576 | 44 |
United States ×18
Singapore ×2
China ×1
France ×1
Italy ×1
Sweden ×1
operator not established ×4
|
+12 more on the model page |
z-ai/glm-5.3Z.ai: GLM 5.3 |
1,048,576 | 42 |
United States ×16
Singapore ×2
Israel ×1
Netherlands ×1
Sweden ×1
operator not established ×6
|
+10 more on the model page |
z-ai/glm-5.3-flashZ.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash |
1,048,576 | 42 |
United States ×18
Singapore ×2
Israel ×1
Netherlands ×1
operator not established ×5
|
+12 more on the model page |
z-ai/glm-5.1Z.ai: GLM 5.1 |
202,752 | 20 |
United States ×7
Singapore ×2
China ×1
operator not established ×2
|
+1 more on the model page |
z-ai/glm-4.7Z.ai: GLM 4.7 |
202,752 | 11 |
United States ×4
Singapore ×1
operator not established ×2
|
|
z-ai/glm-5Z.ai: GLM 5 |
202,752 | 10 |
United States ×3
Singapore ×2
operator not established ×1
|
23 further Z.ai (GLM) models are in the catalog, ranked below these by route count. Browse every model.
DeepSeek 26 models
DeepSeek's privacy policy names Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., registered in China, as data controller. Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 |
1,048,576 | 33 |
United States ×13
China ×1
France ×1
Israel ×1
Netherlands ×1
Singapore ×1
Sweden ×1
operator not established ×6
|
+7 more on the model page |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 |
1,048,576 | 27 |
United States ×12
China ×2
Singapore ×1
operator not established ×3
|
+6 more on the model page |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-proDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 |
1,048,576 | 26 |
United States ×11
China ×2
Singapore ×1
operator not established ×2
|
+5 more on the model page |
deepseek/deepseek-v3.2DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 |
163,840 | 17 |
United States ×8
China ×1
operator not established ×2
|
+2 more on the model page |
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flashDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
1,048,576 | 17 |
United States ×7
China ×1
operator not established ×3
|
+1 more on the model page |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-expDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
1,048,576 | 12 |
United States ×5
China ×1
Singapore ×1
|
20 further DeepSeek models are in the catalog, ranked below these by route count. Browse every model.
ByteDance (Seed, Doubao) 18 models
ByteDance is headquartered in Haidian, Beijing, China, while its associated entity ByteDance Ltd is incorporated in the Cayman Islands. ByteDance's own site lists offices in roughly 120 cities without naming a headquarters. Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
bytedance/seed-1.8ByteDance/Seed-1.8 |
256,000 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
bytedance/seed-2.0-codeByteDance/Seed-2.0-code |
256,000 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
bytedance/seed-2.0-miniByteDance/Seed-2.0-mini |
256,000 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
bytedance/seed-2.0-proByteDance/Seed-2.0-pro |
256,000 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
bytedance/ui-tars-1.5-7bByteDance: UI-TARS 7B |
128,000 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
bytedance/doubao-seed-1.6-251015Doubao Seed 1.6 |
262,144 | 1 |
United States ×1
|
12 further ByteDance (Seed, Doubao) models are in the catalog, ranked below these by route count. Browse every model.
MiniMax 16 models
MiniMax Group Inc. is based in Shanghai, China and listed in Hong Kong (SEHK: 100). Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
minimax/minimax-m3MiniMax: MiniMax M3 |
524,288 | 21 |
United States ×11
Singapore ×2
|
+5 more on the model page |
minimax/minimax-m2.5MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 |
196,608 | 13 |
United States ×5
Singapore ×2
Sweden ×1
operator not established ×1
|
|
minimax/minimax-m2.7MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 |
196,608 | 11 |
United States ×6
Singapore ×1
operator not established ×1
|
|
minimax/minimax-m2MiniMax: MiniMax M2 |
204,800 | 4 |
Singapore ×1
United States ×1
|
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minimax/minimax-m2.5-highspeedMiniMax M2.5 Highspeed |
204,800 | 4 |
Singapore ×1
United States ×1
|
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minimax/minimax-m2.1MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 |
204,800 | 3 |
Singapore ×1
United States ×1
|
10 further MiniMax models are in the catalog, ranked below these by route count. Browse every model.
Moonshot AI (Kimi) 16 models
Beijing Moonshot AI Technology Co., Ltd. gives its address as Haidian District, Beijing, China. Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
moonshotai/kimi-k3MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 |
1,048,576 | 39 |
United States ×15
Singapore ×2
Netherlands ×1
operator not established ×6
|
+9 more on the model page |
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 |
262,144 | 33 |
United States ×16
Singapore ×2
Sweden ×1
operator not established ×2
|
+10 more on the model page |
moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-codeMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code |
262,144 | 19 |
United States ×9
Singapore ×2
China ×1
Sweden ×1
operator not established ×1
|
+3 more on the model page |
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 |
262,144 | 12 |
United States ×5
China ×1
Singapore ×1
United Kingdom ×1
operator not established ×1
|
|
moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinkingMoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking |
262,144 | 4 |
United States ×2
operator not established ×1
|
|
moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code-highspeedmoonshotai/Kimi: K2.7-Code-Highspeed |
262,144 | 3 |
Singapore ×1
United States ×1
|
10 further Moonshot AI (Kimi) models are in the catalog, ranked below these by route count. Browse every model.
Tencent (Hunyuan) 4 models
Tencent Holdings Limited's 2018 annual report gives its group head office as Tencent Binhai Towers, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, PRC, with a principal place of business in Hong Kong. Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
tencent/hy3Tencent: Hy3 |
262,144 | 8 |
United States ×4
Singapore ×1
|
|
tencent/hunyuan-a13b-instructTencent: Hunyuan A13B Instruct |
131,072 | 2 |
Singapore ×1
|
none configured |
tencent/hy4-previewtencent/hy4-preview |
262,144 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
tencent/hy3-previewTencent: Hy3 preview |
262,144 | 1 |
United States ×1
|
Xiaomi (MiMo) 4 models
Xiaomi Corporation's 2025 annual report gives its head office and principal place of business as Xiaomi Campus, Haidian District, Beijing, PRC, with a Cayman Islands registered office. Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
xiaomi/mimo-v2.5Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 |
1,050,000 | 8 |
United States ×4
China ×1
operator not established ×1
|
|
xiaomi/mimo-v2.5-proXiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro |
1,050,000 | 8 |
United States ×4
China ×1
|
|
xiaomimimo/mimo-v2.5Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 |
1,048,576 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
xiaomimimo/mimo-v2.5-proXiaomi MiMo V2.5 Pro |
1,048,576 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
Ant Group (inclusionAI: Ling, Ring) 3 models
The inclusionAI organisation describes itself as the home of Ant Group's AGI initiative, and Ant Group's own offices page gives its principal business office as Z Space, No. 556 Xixi Road, Hangzhou, China (https://www.antgroup.com/en/about/our-offices). Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flashinclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash |
131,072 | 4 |
United States ×2
|
|
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fininclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin |
262,144 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vlinclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL |
131,072 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
Baidu (ERNIE) 3 models
Baidu, Inc.'s Form 20-F gives principal executive offices at Baidu Campus, No. 10 Shangdi 10th Street, Haidian District, Beijing, PRC. Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
baidu/cobuddyCoBuddy |
131,072 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
baidu/ernie-4.5-21B-a3bERNIE 4.5 21B A3B |
120,000 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
|
baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-424b-a47bBaidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B |
123,000 | 2 |
United States ×1
|
Kuaishou (Kwaipilot KAT) 3 models
The Kwaipilot organisation describes itself as the AI team from Kuaishou, whose head office is in Haidian District, Beijing, PRC per its HKEX annual report (https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2022/0419/2022041900053.pdf). Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
kwaipilot/kat-coder-air-v2.5KAT Coder Air V2.5 |
262,144 | 2 |
Singapore ×1
United States ×1
|
|
kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2KAT Coder Pro V2 |
262,144 | 2 |
Singapore ×1
United States ×1
|
|
kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2.5KAT Coder Pro V2.5 |
262,144 | 2 |
Singapore ×1
United States ×1
|
StepFun 3 models
StepFun's terms name Shanghai StepFun Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. as the company providing its models and services. Source.
| Model | Context | Routes | Operator jurisdictions | US-operated routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
stepfun/step-3.7-flashStepFun: Step 3.7 Flash |
262,144 | 3 |
China ×1
United States ×1
|
|
stepfun/step-3.5-flashStepFun: Step 3.5 Flash |
262,144 | 1 |
China ×1
|
none configured |
stepfun/step-3.5-flash-2603Step 3.5 Flash 2603 |
262,144 | 1 |
China ×1
|
none configured |
Model origin is keyed by the vendor prefix of a model id, and a prefix earns a row once at least three of its models are in the catalog. 42 callable catalog models sit under a prefix below that line and carry no recorded origin, so they are on no page here rather than assigned a country by guesswork.
Browse every modelReview provider policiesAI models from the United StatesAI models from the European Union
Judge the weights on the weights.
Benchmarks, price, and measured latency per route are on each model page and the leaderboard. Origin country belongs in a procurement review, not in a quality argument.
Two preferences do the work.
provider.jurisdiction set to us restricts routing to US-operated providers. provider.only pins an exact allowlist. Both fail closed rather than falling back to something you did not approve.
What this page does not claim.
No claim that a US operator stores nothing, that any route is certified, or that operator country tells you where the hardware sits. Retention posture is the ZDR and confidential compute question, tracked separately.
Current routes, prices, privacy, and measured performance.
Catalog facts come from the routes currently configured in TrustedRouter. Performance uses the same cached metadata snapshot as the public leaderboard. Prompts and outputs are not part of these measurements.
| Model | Providers | Context | Input | Output | Privacy | Measured route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 |
+21
|
1,048,576 | $0.047475/1M to $2.11/1M | $0.09495/1M to $10.55/1M | confidential | 3685 ms TTFT nebius · 99.60% available · n=1231 |
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash |
+14
|
1,048,576 | $0.07174/1M to $0.364144/1M | $0.17724/1M to $0.842312/1M | E2EE 5 cited scores | 4807 ms TTFT deepseek · 114 tok/s · 99.59% available · n=986 |
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3moonshotai/kimi-k3 |
+20
|
1,048,576 | $2.05725/1M to $4.22/1M | $10.28625/1M to $21.1/1M | E2EE | 10623 ms TTFT kimi · 55 tok/s · 100.00% available · n=427 |
GLM 5.2 Fast on Fireworksz-ai/glm-5.2-fast |
|
1,048,576 | $2.2155/1M | $6.963/1M | ZDR | 3411 ms TTFT fireworks · 149 tok/s · 100.00% available · n=218 |
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flashz-ai/glm-5.3-flash |
+23
|
1,048,576 | $0.07385/1M to $2.11/1M | $0.2532/1M to $10.55/1M | E2EE | 5540 ms TTFT zai · 97.50% available · n=126 |
Z.ai: GLM 5.3z-ai/glm-5.3 |
+23
|
1,048,576 | $1.0339/1M to $5.1273/1M | $3.2494/1M to $12.81825/1M | E2EE | 3312 ms TTFT zero-g · 94 tok/s · 100.00% available · n=85 |
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Questions
Does using a Chinese model send my prompts to China?
Only if you route it to a provider operated from China. The model's origin and the endpoint's operator are separate facts in the catalog. Most of these are open-weights models that US-registered providers also serve; a request routed to one of those reaches that provider's endpoint and is not sent on to the originating lab. A request to the vendor's own API does reach a China-registered operator, which is what the provider table on this page lists.
How do I use a Chinese model without China-bound traffic?
Set provider.jurisdiction to "us" on the request. The router then considers only providers whose recorded operator country is the United States, and fails closed when none serve that model, rather than silently routing elsewhere. provider.only pins an exact operator allowlist when a country test is not specific enough.
Which providers are operated from China?
The provider table on this page is generated from the catalog, listing every provider whose operator is a China-registered company according to that company's own privacy policy, terms, or regulatory filing. Some familiar Chinese AI brands are not on it: the api.z.ai and api.siliconflow.com services are operated by Singapore-registered companies under Singapore law per their own terms, so they are recorded under Singapore while the weights they serve stay grouped under the labs that built them.
Are Chinese models worse or less safe?
That is not a question a jurisdiction directory can answer, and this page does not try to. Benchmark scores, prices, and measured latency per route are on each model page and the live leaderboard. What the catalog records is the origin country and the operator country, each with the source it was read from, so a procurement review can weigh them alongside measurements rather than instead of them.