Music, Audio & Creator Economy in Greater China
27 music, audio & creator economy providers across Greater China, publishing 25 APIs.
27 providers
25 published APIs
25 indexed documents
Music, Audio & Creator Economy across Greater China — 27 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 25 indexed APIs.
9 of the 27 publish at least one machine-readable API; 18 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: 15 minimal, 5 thin, 5 emerging, and 2 developing.
Leading by rating: StepFun, Liesheng Group, Xiaoe (小鹅通), Qiniu Cloud, Ximalaya, Kuaishou, and 21 more.
Region membership is derived from three explicit signals — a provider tag, a provider-name pattern, or a stated headquarters in the provider’s own description. This is a map of stated headquarters, not of markets served.
Providers (27)
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | thin |
| Chinese Narrative Chapter Lock | A chapter-scoped terminology-locking REST API for CN→EN webnovel (xianxia/cultivation) localization. It locks genre conventions, honorifics, ranks, sect and character names from... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 9GAG | 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based global entertainment platform founded in 2008 with the mission to "make the world happier." It is one of the largest meme and user-generated humor comm... | 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 |
| Appionics | Appionics Holdings Limited is a Hong Kong mobile applications and games company that operated under the consumer brand name "Animoca". Co-founded by Yat Siu and David Kim, and e... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Indexed API documents (25)
Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 25 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 25 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.
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...
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...
Diebian AI Super-Resolution API
4K Garden
Backend API for Diebian AI (蝶变 AI), 4K Garden's credit-metered video super-resolution platform. Covers authentication, customer accounts ...
cultureBiz chapter-lock
Chinese Narrative Chapter Lock
REST API for locking chapter-scoped terminology in Chinese webnovel localization. Core endpoint POST /v1/lock returns locked terms, title...
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...
Other industries in Greater China
Healthcare 98
Artificial Intelligence 66
Digital Health & Telehealth 66
Biotechnology & Drug Discovery 61
Semiconductors & Hardware 44
Education & EdTech 42
Retail 41
Life Sciences 40
Supply Chain & Procurement 33
Developer Tools & DevOps 28
Marketing & Advertising 24
Robotics & Autonomous Systems 23
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Music, Audio & Creator Economy elsewhere
North America 83
Europe 31
DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 10
India & South Asia 8
France & Iberia 7
United Kingdom & Ireland 7
Japan & Korea 5
Nordics 5
Australia & New Zealand 4
Latin America 4
Middle East 3
Southeast Asia 3
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This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts:
Greater China and
Music, Audio & Creator Economy. A provider appears here only when it is
already a member of both. Greater China membership is matched on tag, name pattern, stated HQ,
so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.
Work with this as data
Every region here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.