# ChinaAPI

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chinaapi-ai/  
**Website:** https://chinaapi.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 46.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-11-13 under rubric 0.28.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 71.7 |
| Contract Quality | 26.3 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 33.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 51.8 |
| Access Clarity | 76.6 |

Regulatory layer — **AI & Biometrics**: 17.3 (matched via residual_tags).

## Agent readiness — 28.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Paid — onboarding: unknown, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (1)

- **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)

- **ChinaAPI MCP Server** — Read-only ChinaAPI model catalogue, price snapshot, cost estimates and request recipes.

## Security (2)

- **ChinaAPI Authentication** — 1 scheme
- **ChinaAPI Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **ChinaAPI Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/chinaapi-ai/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.