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Video, image, and voice
Chinese video, image, speech, and music tools for people outside China, with the prices and boards we could actually cite.
BytePlus ModelArk from outside China: signup, payment, and the USD tableSeed text, Seedance video, and Seedream image on ByteDance's international console. Card support is documented. We did not open an account.Chinese image models against the OpenAI rows on a public boardSeedream, Qwen-Image, and Hunyuan Image on the 7 Oct 2026 board. BytePlus prices Seedream. Midjourney and Kolors are absent.Chinese AI music against the Suno plans the pricing page actually renderedSuno lists Free at $0, Pro at $8, and Premier at $24 a month. Mureka's per-song table did not render, so it is not quoted.Chinese text-to-speech prices, on one unit, against ElevenLabsMiniMax, Qwen, and CosyVoice against ElevenLabs per 1,000 characters. Fish Audio bills bytes. BytePlus lists a Seed speech quota, not a rate we could quote.Chinese AI for translation, writing, and study, without a fake exam scoreWhat to paste, and what not to, when the job is a menu, a form, or a textbook. No translation benchmark is stored on this site.Chinese AI video, against the Sora and Veo rows we can citeA 22 Sep 2026 video board, plus per-second API prices. Kling 4.0 is absent. Seedance on BytePlus is priced per million tokens.Doubao and Qwen for travellers and expats: two apps, and the things we did not installEveryday Chinese help outside China. Qwen Chat is a site you can open. We did not install Doubao or score an English interface.Free Chinese AI for video and image, without a made-up credit countOpen weights, Fish Audio's zero rate, and BytePlus quotas we could read. Kling and Hailuo consumer credits are still not archived.Kling 4.0 outside China: the official pages disagree about whether it is fully liveThe 14 Oct guide lists the full feature table. A 15 Oct post still said the full model launches this October. No credit price is stored.Open-weight Chinese video and image models, and the hardware the cards actually nameWan 2.2's 5B card says 24GB for the documented command. Qwen-Image is Apache 2.0. HunyuanVideo uses Tencent's community licence.