ChinaAPI

ChinaAPI (chinaapi.ai), operated by ApexNodes (Hong Kong) Limited, is an independent, self-serve API gateway for international developers and teams using Chinese LLM, image, video, and audio models. One OpenAI-compatible API key gives access to model families such as GLM, Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, Wan, Seedance, Hailuo and Kling, with USD billing, a $2 trial credit, and no mainland-China phone or entity required. It also publishes a model pricing dataset, integration guides, a beta Social Data API, and an anonymous read-only MCP catalog at https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp.

ChinaAPI is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, LLM, API Gateway, and OpenAI-Compatible.

The ChinaAPI catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

ChinaAPI’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, support, and 35 more developer resources.

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46.3/100 developing Agent 29/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
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AccessPaid

1 API 1 MCP Servers 4 Agent Skills

Company Artificial Intelligence LLM API Gateway OpenAI-Compatible Video Generation Image Generation Speech MCP China

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 46.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 5.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.8 / 17

Access Clarity 13.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.7 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented) Ask about this →
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Contract Quality scores 26.3 — up to +18.4 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 51.8 — up to +9.6 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Governance scores 22.0 — up to +9.4 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ChinaAPI API

OpenAI-compatible gateway API (base https://api.chinaapi.ai/v1, Bearer key) for Chinese LLM, image, video and audio models (chat completions, audio speech/transcriptions, async ...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

ChinaAPI MCP Server

Read-only ChinaAPI model catalogue, price snapshot, cost estimates and request recipes.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 4

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

chinaapi-ai-chat-completion

AGENT SKILL

chinaapi-ai-douyin-comment-research

AGENT SKILL

chinaapi-ai-generate-video

AGENT SKILL

chinaapi-ai-speech-audio

AGENT SKILL

ChinaAPI pricing

Prices published by ChinaAPI.

Plan	Price
Trial credit	receive $2 free credit
Standard (pay-as-you-go, USD)	Standard model rates follow providers' international list prices at 100%
Enterprise	Enterprise pricing is a separate optional path

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Social Data daily beta budget: Daily beta budgets may return HTTP 429 and reset at UTC midnight
Social Data transient rate limits: transient rate limits also apply

Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

ChinaAPI Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

ChinaAPI Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

ChinaAPI

11 quoted statements, read from ChinaAPI's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

ChinaAPI

17 quoted statements, read from ChinaAPI's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

ChinaAPI

4 quoted statements, read from ChinaAPI's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

ChinaAPI

1 quoted statement, read from ChinaAPI's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

ChinaAPI

1 quoted statement, read from ChinaAPI's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Chinaapi Ai Context

32 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

ChinaAPI API Rules

44 rules · 42 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

ChinaAPI Api Overlay

112 actions · documentation · chinaapi-ai-openapi-generated.yml

DERIVED

JSON Schema 7

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

GetV1SocialRedditCommentsResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetV1SocialRedditPostResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetV1SocialRedditSearchResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostV1AudioSpeechRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostV1ChatCompletionsRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostV1VideoGenerationsRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChinaAPI Workflow v1

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

ChinaAPI Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

ChinaAPI Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 9

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Idempotency

Conventions

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

IntegrationEdges

IntegrationEdges

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Support

FAQ

ChangeLog

Commercial 7

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

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Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Hosts

Vendors

RefundPolicy

Telegram

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: chinaapi-ai
name: ChinaAPI
description: ChinaAPI (chinaapi.ai), operated by ApexNodes (Hong Kong) Limited, is an independent, self-serve API gateway
  for international developers and teams using Chinese LLM, image, video, and audio models. One OpenAI-compatible API key
  gives access to model families such as GLM, Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, Wan, Seedance, Hailuo and Kling, with USD billing,
  a $2 trial credit, and no mainland-China phone or entity required. It also publishes a model pricing dataset, integration
  guides, a beta Social Data API, and an anonymous read-only MCP catalog at https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/chinaapi-ai/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-03 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-03'
modified: '2026-11-03'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- API Gateway
- OpenAI-Compatible
- Video Generation
- Image Generation
- Speech
- MCP
- China
tags_raw:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- API Gateway
- OpenAI Compatible
- Video Generation
- Image Generation
- Speech
- MCP
- China
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
image: https://chinaapi.ai/assets/og/home.png
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/chinaapi-ai-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/chinaapi-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/chinaapi-ai-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/chinaapi-ai-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/chinaapi-ai-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/chinaapi-ai-data-model.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/chinaapi-ai-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/chinaapi-ai-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/chinaapi-ai-authentication.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/chinaapi-ai-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/chinaapi-ai-error-codes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/chinaapi-ai-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/chinaapi-ai-api-overlay.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/chinaapi-ai-llms.txt
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/chinaapi-ai-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/chinaapi-ai-mcp.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/chinaapi-ai-hosts.yml
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/chinaapi-ai-integration-edges.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/chinaapi-ai-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chinaapi-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/
- type: Portal
  url: https://dash.chinaapi.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/guides/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/for-ai-agents/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/data/model-pricing/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://dash.chinaapi.ai/pricing?lang=en
- type: SignUp
  url: https://dash.chinaapi.ai/register?lang=en
- type: Support
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/request-access/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/faq/
- type: Blog
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/insights/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/model-updates/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/llms.txt
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/privacy/
- type: RefundPolicy
  url: https://chinaapi.ai/refund-policy/
- type: Telegram
  url: https://t.me/chinaapiai
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/chinaapi-ai-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/chinaapi-ai-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/chinaapi-ai-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/chinaapi-ai-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/chinaapi-ai-data-license.yml
apis:
- aid: chinaapi-ai:chinaapi-ai-api
  name: ChinaAPI API
  description: OpenAI-compatible gateway API (base https://api.chinaapi.ai/v1, Bearer key) for Chinese LLM, image, video and
    audio models (chat completions, audio speech/transcriptions, async video generations) plus the beta Social Data API (/v1/social/{platform}/...).
    115 operations; contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-11-03), not the provider's own document
    -- no published OpenAPI was found.
  humanURL: https://chinaapi.ai/for-ai-agents/
  baseURL: https://api.chinaapi.ai
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_ae-authored/chinaapi-ai-openapi-generated.yml
    x-provenance: generated
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinaapi-ai-post-v1-chat-completions-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinaapi-ai-post-v1-audio-speech-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinaapi-ai-post-v1-video-generations-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinaapi-ai-get-v1-social-reddit-comments-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinaapi-ai-get-v1-social-reddit-post-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/chinaapi-ai-get-v1-social-reddit-search-response-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: Name, legal entity (ApexNodes (Hong Kong) Limited) and links read from the chinaapi.ai homepage footer/nav and llms.txt.
  evidence:
  - url: https://chinaapi.ai/
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinaapi.ai/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinaapi.ai/guides/
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinaapi.ai/for-ai-agents/
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinaapi.ai/faq/
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinaapi.ai/insights/
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinaapi.ai/model-updates/
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinaapi.ai/data/model-pricing/
    status: 200
  - url: https://chinaapi.ai/refund-policy/
    status: 200
  - url: https://dash.chinaapi.ai/
    status: 200
  - url: https://t.me/chinaapiai
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-03'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 38
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

ChinaAPI — frequently asked questions

Does ChinaAPI have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from ChinaAPI, including ChinaAPI API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the ChinaAPI?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for ChinaAPI, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the ChinaAPI?

ChinaAPI uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as ChinaAPI Authentication.

How much does the ChinaAPI cost?

ChinaAPI publishes its prices; its Trial credit plan is receive $2 free credit as of 2026-11-03. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for ChinaAPI, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does ChinaAPI have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for ChinaAPI: Read-only ChinaAPI model catalogue, price snapshot, cost estimates and request recipes.

Is the ChinaAPI ready for AI agents?

ChinaAPI has a Kin Score of 46.3 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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