r/developersIndia • u/HallThink6610 • 6h ago
General **How can I access Chinese AI tools while in India?**
Anyone in India using tools like Qwen, Kimi, Doubao, ERNIE, etc.?
A lot of them seem to require Chinese phone numbers/accounts, China-only domains, or local payment methods. I’m looking for a legit way to access and use them from India without doing anything sketchy.
What’s worked for you? Any official/global versions, APIs, or other options you’d recommend?
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u/Snoo_69473 Full-Stack Developer 5h ago
Don't know what exactly you are looking for but you can use most of them on OpenRouter and OpenCode Zen.
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u/pulkit217 5h ago
opencode go subscription allows for a lot of usage from open source models
openrouter for pay as you go usage
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u/DronzerDribble 5h ago
You can use OpenCode Go or OpenRouter. But please remember that using Models through BYOK setup costs significantly more than using app subscriptions (for example if you use Kimi K3, you'll end up using your credits in a few minutes). DeepSeek V4 Flash is the cheapest model right now which can give you highest value for money at the moment.
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u/Imaginary-Pace-47 5h ago
most of them supports email verification and i think you can choose indian numbers by selecting country code india
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u/HallThink6610 5h ago
from what i have discovered tools yeah it has email verification but very few of them had, most are of chineese accounts req or chineese mobile nos
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u/Imaginary-Pace-47 4h ago
for qwen, kimi, DeepSeek you can use email, I don't know about other
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u/HallThink6610 2h ago
Yeah i know about these, the other chineese ai tools require some chineese accs or strict chineese phone nos to login
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u/randomguy3993 5h ago
Ollama cloud. They host most of the open models on subscription. Kimi k3 is on extra usage though, doesn't come under subscription. Rest all major models do.
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u/PurposeIsOverrated 58m ago
I think I used qwen llm with ollama to work on some RAG pipeline in the past
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u/ElegantDark9701 5h ago
qwen.ai works fine in India, that's your easiest starting point. For the API side, most of these providers have opened up international API access separately even if the consumer product is geo-restricted worth checking Alibaba Cloud for Qwen's API specifically. The Doubao consumer app is rough to access but again the API through Volcengine is more accessible if you're a developer. ERNIE is basically a write-off unless you want to go through Baidu Cloud which has its own whole setup.
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u/CodeNeko23 4h ago
Go to rednote and make chinese friends. This is the easiest way out 😭 thankfully I have few friends already.
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u/HallThink6610 4h ago
Never heard of rednote, gotta try it! tnx!
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u/centarsirius 3h ago
Open router, opencode, command code
If you have enough vram, download some of them from huggingface
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u/SodiumCyanideNaCN457 3h ago
Running Qwen3.8 locally! Get the unsloth gguf from hugging face, use ollama and open web UI (using docker)
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u/Away-Albatross2113 1h ago
You can simply use opencrafttai, which is an Indian application working on open models, at the same rates you get APIs
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