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🇨🇳Music, Audio & Creator Economy in China

26 music, audio & creator economy providers in China, publishing 25 APIs.

26 providers 25 published APIs 29 indexed documents

Music, Audio & Creator Economy in China — 26 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 25 indexed APIs.

9 of the 26 publish at least one machine-readable API; 17 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.

By Kin Score band: 14 minimal, 6 emerging, 4 thin, and 2 developing.

Leading by rating: StepFun, Liesheng Group, Xiaoe (小鹅通), Qiniu Cloud, Kuaishou, Ximalaya, and 20 more.

Country membership reads a tag or a stated headquarters. A provider lands in China when one of its own top-level tags names the country, or when its own description states a headquarters that names the country or one of its cities (roadmap#542, #719). A description that calls a company by its nationality, or names a city in a phrase that is not a headquarters statement, is not counted, so this cell is a floor, not a census.

Providers (26)

Provider Description APIs Rating
StepFun StepFun (阶跃星辰) is a Shanghai-based AI foundation-model company whose open platform serves the Step model family — multimodal reasoning (step-3.7-flash), fast language reasoning ... 12 developing
Liesheng Group Liesheng Group (猎声集团 / Liesheng Technology) is a Dongguan, Guangdong based consumer-electronics company founded on 25 May 2015 as one of Xiaomi's first ecosystem-chain suppliers... 2 developing
Xiaoe (小鹅通) Xiaoe (小鹅通), operated by Shenzhen Xiaoe Network Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese private-domain (私域) marketing and content-commerce SaaS platform that helps businesses convert... 1 thin
Qiniu Cloud Qiniu Cloud (七牛云) is a data-centric cloud infrastructure platform for storing, delivering, processing, and computing over large-scale unstructured data. Its core products are Ob... 2 thin
Kuaishou Kuaishou Technology (快手) is a Beijing-based short-video and live-streaming platform operating Kuaishou in mainland China and Kwai internationally, spanning short video, live com... 3 thin
Ximalaya Ximalaya (喜马拉雅) is China's largest online audio and podcast platform, distributing audiobooks, radio dramas, children's content, courses, news and live broadcast radio. Its deve... 2 thin
4K Garden 4K Garden (4K花园), legally Sikai Garden Network Technology (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. (四开花园网络科技（广州）有限公司), is a Chinese ultra-high-definition video technology company founded in 2016 a... 1 emerging
Toutiao Toutiao (今日头条) is ByteDance's AI-driven content recommendation platform, launched in 2012, aggregating news, articles, short video and micro-posts into a personalized feed for h... 1 emerging
Aiguang Aiguang (爱逛) is a Hangzhou, China live-streaming and short-video commerce platform built on the WeChat ecosystem. Consumers enter live rooms through the Aiguang WeChat mini-prog... 0 emerging
QQ Music QQ Music (QQ音乐) is a leading Chinese online music streaming service operated by Tencent. It offers a massive catalog of high‑quality, lossless tracks, personalized playlists, an... 1 emerging
AbleSky AbleSky, Inc. (能力天空) is an online-education SaaS company incorporated in 2007 in Mountain View, California, operating in China through its wholly owned subsidiary 能力天空科技（北京）有限公司... 0 emerging
Anker Innovations Anker Innovations is a global consumer-electronics company headquartered in Shenzhen, China, known for its Anker charging and power products, Soundcore audio, eufy smart-home an... 0 emerging
B612 B612 is a consumer selfie and beauty camera application for iOS and Android, published globally by SNOW Corporation and operated in mainland China as B612咔叽 (B612 Kaji) by Yirui... 0 minimal
KK直播 (KK Live) KK直播 (KK Live) is a Chinese mobile-first video livestreaming and social entertainment platform operated by 杭州米络文化传播有限公司 (Hangzhou Melot Culture Communication Co., Ltd.), part of... 0 minimal
Kuaidian Reading Kuaidian Reading (快点阅读) is a Chinese mobile reading community operated by Beijing Tiantong Interactive Technology Co., Ltd. (Sky Platanus Interactive, 天桐互动), positioning itself ... 0 minimal
ByteDance ByteDance is a global technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Beijing, operating across roughly 120 cities with more than 150,000 employees. It builds content, c... 0 minimal
FangTek FangTek (Shanghai Fangtek Electronics Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Shanghai. It designs highly integrated analog and mixed-signal integ... 0 minimal
chushou Chushou (触手TV / 触手直播) was a China-based mobile game live-streaming platform, at one point among the largest mobile-focused game streaming services in China, letting players broa... 0 minimal
Dangdang Dangdang (当当, dangdang.com) is a Chinese business-to-consumer e-commerce company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Beijing. It began as one of China's largest online booksell... 0 minimal
Kuwo Music Kuwo Music (酷我音乐) is a Chinese online music streaming service, founded in Beijing in 2005, that grew from a desktop music player into one of China's major consumer streaming app... 0 minimal
mogujie Mogujie (蘑菇街), operated by Mogu Inc. (NYSE MOGU), is a Chinese online fashion and lifestyle social-commerce destination that pairs a shopping marketplace with live video streami... 0 minimal
RedNote (Xiaohongshu) RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu (小红书, "Little Red Book"), is a Shanghai-based social and e-commerce platform operated by Xingyin Information Technology (行吟信息科技). It blend... 0 minimal
Renren Renren (人人网), originally launched as Xiaonei in 2005 and renamed in 2009, was one of China's largest social networking platforms and was widely described as the "Facebook of Chi... 0 minimal
ruhnn Ruhnn Holding Limited (如涵控股) is a Hangzhou-based Chinese influencer (KOL) incubation, marketing, and e-commerce company. It pioneered the "internet celebrity" (wanghong) commerc... 0 minimal
docin docin (豆丁网, docin.com) is a Chinese C2C document-sharing platform operated by Beijing Docin Century Network Technology (北京豆丁世纪网络技术有限公司) that faces the global market. The platfor... 0 minimal
Kaixin001 Kaixin001 (开心网) is a Chinese social networking website launched in March 2008 by founder Cheng Bingao, a former senior executive at Sina. It rose to mass popularity in 2009-2010... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (29)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 25 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 29 documents.

StepFun Chat Completions API

StepFun
OpenAI-compatible chat completions for the Step model family (e.g. step-3.7-flash, step-3.5-flash, stepaudio-2.5-chat), with multimodal i...

StepFun Messages API

StepFun
Anthropic Messages API-compatible endpoint (POST /v1/messages) that lets the Anthropic SDK and Claude-style JSON structures run against S...

StepFun Responses API

StepFun
OpenAI Responses API-style endpoint for generating model responses on the StepFun open platform.

StepFun Models API

StepFun
List available Step models, retrieve a single model, and inspect the model object.

StepFun Audio API

StepFun
Speech synthesis (TTS), voice cloning with preview, official voice catalog, audio transcription, and file-based / streaming speech recogn...

StepFun Realtime API

StepFun
Bidirectional realtime voice over WebSocket (wss://api.stepfun.com/v1/realtime) with OpenAI Realtime-style session, conversation, and res...

StepFun Images API

StepFun
Image generation, image editing, and image-to-image endpoints for the step-2x-large and step-image-edit-2 models.

StepFun Files API

StepFun
Upload, list, retrieve, delete files and fetch file content for use with Step models and knowledge bases.

StepFun Vector Stores API

StepFun
Knowledge-base (vector store) management — create/list/retrieve/delete stores and attach or remove files for retrieval-augmented generation.

StepFun Web Search API

StepFun
Web search and text-to-image search endpoints (POST /v1/search) billed per call as value-added capabilities.

StepFun Token Count API

StepFun
Pre-count prompt tokens for a model request (POST /v1/token/count) to estimate usage and cost.

StepFun Accounts API

StepFun
Retrieve account information including balances (GET /v1/accounts).

Suunto Cloud API

Liesheng Group
The Suunto Cloud API (also called the Integration API) gives approved partners OAuth2-authorized access to a Suunto App user's workout an...

HAYLOU Commerce (UCP/MCP)

Liesheng Group
The HAYLOU brand storefront exposes an agent-facing commerce surface over the Universal Commerce Protocol, reachable as a live MCP endpoi...

Xiaoe Open API

Xiaoe (小鹅通)
Xiaoe's Open API (开放API) for integrating store data and operations — users, products, orders, refunds, live broadcasts, learning/course d...

Object Storage (Kodo)

Qiniu Cloud
REST API for Qiniu Kodo object storage — bucket administration, object upload/download, stat/copy/move/delete, lifecycle and CORS rules, ...

IAM

Qiniu Cloud
Identity and access management API — IAM sub-users, AK/SK keypairs, groups, and permission policies scoping services/actions/resources.

Kuaishou Open Platform API

Kuaishou
The Kuaishou Open Platform (快手开放平台) exposes a JSON HTTP API for third-party applications, mini programs and merchant tools built on Kuais...

Kwai for Business Marketing API

Kuaishou
Kwai for Business is Kuaishou's international advertising and marketing platform for the Kwai app. Its developer portal at developers.kwa...

Kling AI API

Kuaishou
Kling AI (可灵) is Kuaishou Technology's generative video and image platform, launched in June 2024 and, by the company's own account, resp...

Ximalaya Open Platform API

Ximalaya
The core Ximalaya Open Platform HTTP+JSON API on api.ximalaya.com: free on-demand content (albums, tracks, categories, tags), paid on-dem...

Ximalaya Paid Content & Distribution API

Ximalaya
The paid-content and distribution HTTP+JSON API on mpay.ximalaya.com: product/price lookup (get_price_info, get_gradient_activity_price_i...

4K Garden Auth Controller API

4K Garden
The auth-controller API from 4K Garden — 9 operation(s) for auth-controller.

4K Garden Customer Controller API

4K Garden
The customer-controller API from 4K Garden — 22 operation(s) for customer-controller.

4K Garden Enterprise Controller API

4K Garden
The enterprise-controller API from 4K Garden — 9 operation(s) for enterprise-controller.

4K Garden Frontend Controller API

4K Garden
The frontend-controller API from 4K Garden — 10 operation(s) for frontend-controller.

4K Garden Tvc Controller API

4K Garden
The tvc-controller API from 4K Garden — 8 operation(s) for tvc-controller.

Toutiao Open API (OAuth + User Profile)

Toutiao
Toutiao account OAuth 2.0 and user-profile API, served from the open.snssdk.com host and documented on the Douyin Open Platform under the...

QQ Music API

QQ Music
Tencent Docs for QQ Music API

Other industries in China

Healthcare 102 Digital Health & Telehealth 72 Industrial 68 Artificial Intelligence 65 Biotechnology & Drug Discovery 64 E-Commerce Platform 56 Semiconductors & Hardware 52 Life Sciences 41 Retail 38 Pharmaceutical 37 Education & EdTech 35 Robotics & Autonomous Systems 32 All of China →

Music, Audio & Creator Economy elsewhere

North America 83 Europe 34 Greater China 29 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 11 India & South Asia 9 France & Iberia 8 United Kingdom & Ireland 7 Australia & New Zealand 6 Japan & Korea 5 Nordics 5 Latin America 4 Middle East 4 All of Music, Audio & Creator Economy →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: China and Music, Audio & Creator Economy. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. China membership is matched on tag, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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