China vs US catalog rows

What the Chinese AI coding agents cost

The catalog lists 10 agents from ByteDance, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun, Baidu, Zhipu AI, DeepSeek. Published paid USD entries range from $6.99 to $22/mo. 4 of those rows have no published paid USD entry.

Chinese vendors in this catalog

Vendor is the company field from data/tools.json. Entry is the published paid start, or not public.

  • Trae

    ByteDance. Entry $8/mo. Free plan with a limited monthly Dollar Usage allowance. Auto mode only. Limited autocompletion. 2 concurrent cloud tasks.

  • Qwen Code

    Alibaba Cloud. Entry $8/mo. No usable $0 plan listed.

  • Qoder CN

    Alibaba Cloud. Entry not public/mo. No usable $0 plan listed.

  • CodeBuddy

    Tencent. Entry $10/mo. Free: 100 credits/month. Promotional extras on the pricing table were time-limited.

  • Kimi Code

    Moonshot. Entry $19/mo. No usable $0 plan listed.

  • MiniMax Code

    MiniMax. Entry $22/mo. No usable $0 plan listed.

  • Step Code

    StepFun. Entry $6.99/mo. No usable $0 plan listed.

  • Comate

    Baidu. Entry not public/mo. No usable $0 plan listed.

  • CodeGeeX

    Zhipu AI. Entry not public/mo. Marketplace listing: available for free to all developers as an IDE plugin.

  • DeepSeek Harness

    DeepSeek. Entry not public/mo. No usable $0 plan listed.

US vendor entry prices

These 21 rows use vendor strings from the same file. This is not a ranking.

Also in the catalog, not in either vendor set: Junie (JetBrains).