In the latest model-calling leaderboard, the top 5 spots are all from China.

Tencent, Xiaomi, DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Zhipu each take one seat. All five models have open weights—after downloading, you can run them on your own server.
The data comes from the model aggregation platform OpenRouter.
Developers can call hundreds of AI models here. This ranking is sorted by the actual tokens consumed over the past week; it records real usage and does not look at model benchmarks.
The advantage of these Chinese models is mainly pricing and freedom of use. When handling everyday tasks, the cost of these models—at its lowest—can be up to 50 times lower than high-priced frontier models.