Three leading Chinese AI labs, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI (GLM), and Alibaba Cloud (Qwen), offer powerful, free LLM APIs that cater to different project needs. DeepSeek-V2, with its Mixture-of-Experts architecture, provides the most generous free daily quota and excels in long-context reasoning, making it ideal for high-volume, cost-sensitive projects. GLM-4, a dense transformer model, demonstrates superior performance in Chinese-language tasks and tool calling, suitable for applications targeting the Chinese market. Qwen2.5-72B, another dense model, leads in multilingual coding and mathematical reasoning, making it a strong choice for developers needing reliable code generation and logic across languages, though its free tier is more restrictive. AI
IMPACT Offers developers a clear comparison of free LLM APIs to optimize project costs and performance.
RANK_REASON Comparison of multiple open-source LLM APIs with benchmark results. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]
- Alibaba Cloud
- C Eval Benchmark
- DeepSeek
- DeepSeek V2
- General Language Model
- GSM8K
- HumanEval
- Qwen
- Qwen2.5-72B
- Yingsuan AI
- Zhipu AI
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