LLM APIs usable from mainland China
Answer
As of 2026-10-17, 66 models have at least one channel verified for mainland direct access or Alipay; 44 have both verified. Unverified conditions (“?”) are not counted. （data · verified）
Cheapest of these: Qwen3.7 Flash: blended $0.055 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter). （source · verified）
LLM APIs verified as directly accessible from mainland China or payable with Alipay, sorted by price.
| # | Model | Blended | Cheapest channel | China usability | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Qwen3.7 FlashAlibaba Qwen (Model Studio) | $0.055 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 2 |  Hunyuan-A13BTencent Hunyuan | $0.131 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✗Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 3 |  MiMo V2.6 FlashXiaomi MiMo | $0.175 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 4 | Qwen3.8 FlashAlibaba Qwen (Model Studio) | $0.19 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 5 |  GLM-5.3 FlashZhipu GLM (Z.ai) | $0.194 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 6 |  GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | $0.2 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 7 |  Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $0.2 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 8 |  Gemma 4 31BGoogle Gemini | $0.205 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 9 |  ERNIE 4.5 Turbo 128KBaidu ERNIE (Qianfan) | $0.209 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 10 | Qwen3.8 Omni FlashAlibaba Qwen (Model Studio) | $0.23 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 11 | Hunyuan HY3Tencent Hunyuan | $0.231 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 12 |  DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek | $0.26 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 13 | ERNIE X1.1 PreviewBaidu ERNIE (Qianfan) | $0.261 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 14 | Hunyuan HY3 PreviewTencent Hunyuan | $0.285 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 15 | GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | $0.45 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 16 | DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | $0.523 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 17 | Qwen3.7 PlusAlibaba Qwen (Model Studio) | $0.523 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 18 |  MiniMax-M3MiniMax | $0.525 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 19 | MiMo V2.6 ProXiaomi MiMo | $0.544 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 20 | GLM-5.3 FlashXZhipu GLM (Z.ai) | $0.59 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 21 | Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle Gemini | $0.85 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 22 |  Doubao Seed 2.1 TurboByteDance Doubao (Volcengine Ark) | $0.896 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 23 | Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba Qwen (Model Studio) | $0.956 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 24 |  Mistral Large 4Mistral AI | $1.03 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 25 | ERNIE 5.1Baidu ERNIE (Qianfan) | $1.12 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 26 |  Grok Build 0.1xAI | $1.25 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 27 |  Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55BNVIDIA | $1.25 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 28 | Hunyuan HY4 PreviewTencent Hunyuan | $1.25 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 29 |  Step 5 PreviewStepFun | $1.43 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 30 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle Gemini | $1.5 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 31 | Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle Gemini | $1.5 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 32 | Grok 4.3xAI | $1.56 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 33 | Grok 4.20xAI | $1.56 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 34 | ERNIE 5.0Baidu ERNIE (Qianfan) | $1.57 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 35 | GPT-5.4 miniOpenAI | $1.69 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 36 |  Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI (Kimi) | $1.71 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 37 | Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI (Kimi) | $1.71 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 38 | Doubao Seed 2.1 ProByteDance Doubao (Volcengine Ark) | $1.79 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 39 | Doubao Seed EvolvingByteDance Doubao (Volcengine Ark) | $1.79 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 40 | GLM-5V TurboZhipu GLM (Z.ai) | $1.9 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 41 | GLM-5.3Zhipu GLM (Z.ai) | $1.94 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 42 | GLM-5.2Zhipu GLM (Z.ai) | $1.94 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 43 | DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)DeepSeek | $1.98 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 44 | Qwen3.7 MaxAlibaba Qwen (Model Studio) | $2.21 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 45 | Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Alibaba Qwen (Model Studio) | $2.69 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 46 | Grok 4.7xAI | $3 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 47 | Grok 4.6xAI | $3 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 48 | Grok 4.5xAI | $3 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 49 | Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI | $3 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 50 | GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | $4 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 51 | Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | $4 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 52 | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle Gemini | $4 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 53 | GPT-6 SolOpenAI | $4 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 54 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | $4 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 55 | GLM-5.3 PrimeZhipu GLM (Z.ai) | $4.3 | OpenRouter | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 56 | GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | $4.5 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 57 | Qwen3.8 Max PrimeAlibaba Qwen (Model Studio) | $5.37 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 58 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI (Kimi) | $5.97 | Official (China) | ✓CN direct✓Alipay✓ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 59 | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $8 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 60 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | $8 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 61 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | $10 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 62 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | $10 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 63 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | $11.25 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 64 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | $20 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 65 | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | $20 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
| 66 | GPT-5.5 ProOpenAI | $67.5 | OpenRouter | ✗CN direct✓Alipay✗ID✗Intl card | 2026-10-17 |
Retired, deprecated or OpenRouter-expiring names are not ranked: GPT-5.4 nano（Deprecated · shuts down 2027-04-01）, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite（Deprecated · shutdown no earlier than 2027-05-07）, DeepSeek V4 Flash（Retired · third-party hosted）, MiniMax-M2.7（Deprecated · shuts down 2026-11-18）, Seed 2.0 Code（OpenRouter lists expiration 2026-11-11）, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731（Retired · third-party hosted）. Their prices remain on the model pages and in the main table.Rule
FAQ
Which LLM APIs work from China?
Qwen3.7 Flash, Hunyuan-A13B, MiMo V2.6 Flash, Qwen3.8 Flash, GLM-5.3 Flash, GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, Gemma 4 31B
Is the DeepSeek API free? · Free LLM APIs · Use in Claude Code / Codex · Methodology