# Four Chinese AI vendors. Fifteen models. One endpoint.

#ai #api #llm

The Chinese AI scene isn't a single breakout lab — it's four heavyweights shipping different strengths. And they all live behind one API key now.

curl https://aibridge-api.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer mb-xxxxxxxx" \
  -d '{"model":"deepseek-v4-pro","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"..."}]}'

Change "model" and you've switched vendors — DeepSeek to Qwen to GLM to Moonshot — without touching your SDK, your auth, or your code.

Four vendors, four superpowers

If you've been watching Chinese LLMs from the outside, they blur together. Up close, each vendor owns a niche:

Vendor	Flagship	What they're known for
DeepSeek	`deepseek-v4-pro`, `deepseek-reasoner`, `deepseek-coder`	Reasoning depth and a purpose-built coding model
Qwen (Alibaba)	`qwen3-235b-a22b`, `qwen-plus`, `qwen-max`	Multilingual strength and cost-effective long context
GLM (Zhipu)	`glm-4-plus`, `glm-4-air`, `glm-4-flash`	Balanced tiers from flagship to lightning-fast flash
Moonshot	`kimi-k3`, `moonshot-v1` family	`kimi-k3`'s 1M-token context — whole repos, full transcripts

None of them is "the one." They're a portfolio — and picking one vendor means leaving three superpowers on the table.

Why one endpoint changes the game

Normally, "use all four vendors" means:

Four accounts, four SDKs, four auth flows
Four billing cycles to reconcile
Four code paths that each break in their own way

That friction is exactly why most teams silently pick one vendor and eat the trade-offs. One endpoint removes the friction, so the trade-offs become optional:

Failover — DeepSeek has a rough hour, glm-4-plus takes the call
Task routing — code goes to deepseek-coder, multilingual goes to qwen-max, reasoning goes to deepseek-reasoner
A/B testing — bake off all four vendors on your own data in an afternoon
1M context on demand — reach for kimi-k3 when the input is a whole repo

Four vendors stop being a "migration" and become a model parameter.

The full lineup

DeepSeek — deepseek-v4-pro, deepseek-v4-flash, deepseek-reasoner, deepseek-coder, deepseek-chat
Qwen — qwen3-235b-a22b, qwen-plus (131K), qwen-max
GLM — glm-4-plus, glm-4-air, glm-4-flash
Moonshot — kimi-k3 (1M context), moonshot-v1-128k / -32k / -8k