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DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM: Which Chinese AI API Wins in Production?
A developer stress-tested four Chinese AI APIs—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—under production loads. DeepSeek V4 Flash offers the best price-to-performance at $0.25/M tokens with 60 tokens/sec throughput. Kimi excels at reasoning but costs $3.00/M tokens, while GLM leads in Chinese-language and multimodal tasks.
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The comparison is useful for developers choosing between Chinese AI providers, but real-world performance may vary by use case and region.
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