Best Chinese LLM API for code generation (2026)
Building code generation and need a China-hosted model that works from abroad? Here is the shortlist and the one-key fix.
What to look for
For code generation, the priorities are usually bilingual quality, latency to your users, and predictable cost. Chinese-origin models (Doubao, Qwen, GLM, Hunyuan, DeepSeek, Kimi) are priced well below US equivalents and handle Chinese natively.
Quick comparison
| Model | Input | Output | Fit for code generation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doubao | ¥0.6 | ¥3.6 | undefined |
| Qwen | ¥0.3 | ¥0.6 | undefined |
| GLM | ¥0.6 | ¥0.6 | undefined |
| Hunyuan | ¥0.8 | ¥2 | undefined |
| DeepSeek | ¥1 | ¥2 | undefined |
| Kimi | ¥1 | ¥1 | undefined |
One endpoint, all of them
curl https://tidelink.xyz/v1/llm -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" -d '{"provider":"auto","tier":"cost","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Your code generation prompt"}]}'
Use tier:"cost" for cheapest, tier:"quality" for best output. Same price, better uptime via automatic failover.
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