Best MiniMax alternatives

From Moonshot AI — the long-context champion

China's open-source value king with frontier reasoning

Alibaba's open-model family, top of global downloads

Tencent's fully in-house LLM family

The consumer face of Zhipu's GLM models

Baidu's ERNIE chat product

ByteDance's mass-market AI assistant

Deeply customizable AI companion with long-term memory

ByteDance's AI roleplay app with swipeable story worlds

Unfiltered character chats with multi-model support

AI girlfriend experience with voice calls and generated photos

Swipe-through feed of AI characters to chat with

Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI, maker of Yi open models

MiniCPM: powerful small LLMs that run on your phone

InternLM open LLMs from Shanghai AI Laboratory

Baichuan open-source LLMs by Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan

Israeli NLP pioneer behind Jamba open models

Multimodal LLM startup by ex-DeepMind researchers

Official API platform for Zhipu's GLM models

Feature-rich self-hosted UI for local LLMs

Veteran web UI for running local LLMs

Run LLMs on plain CPUs, in C/C++

Managed LLM service with many model providers on AWS

iFlytek's AI open platform, strong in speech APIs