About

An anonymous guide. The date is the byline.

Which Chinese AI explains what Chinese models cost, how people outside China sign up and pay, and what they give up on privacy and quality. The audience is developers who want a cheaper API, and people looking for a free chat or video app.

The publication is a brand, not a person. Pages do not name the editors. Git history uses a bot identity. There is no staff page and no author photo.

What we will and will not do

• Prices in the tables come from the OpenRouter snapshot built with the site, or from a provider page we link.
• Benchmark charts cite a public file and the date we fetched it. If a number is not in that file, it is not in the chart.
• We do not open accounts or run the apps. Sign-up steps are from the vendor's docs and public reports, and the disclosure says so.
• We do not sell rankings. There are no affiliate links.
• We do not use photographs of real people or of product packaging.

Read the methodology, the disclosure, and the corrections log.