# ChinaAPI Insights — Data-Driven Notes on Chinese AI Models

> Benchmarks, pricing analysis, agent-compatibility reports, and first looks at new Chinese AI models — based on data measured through the ChinaAPI gateway.

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## All articles

- [Long-Running Coding Agents Need a Harness, Not Just a Bigger Model](https://chinaapi.ai/insights/long-running-coding-agent-routing-governance-2026-07/) — Route long-running coding agents by context, modality, tools, and acceptance checks — then use task state, checkpoints, and enforceable limits to keep the loop recoverable. (2026-07-24)
- [Chinese LLMs vs. GPT, Gemini, and Claude: Route by the Contract, Not the Logo](https://chinaapi.ai/insights/chinese-vs-frontier-llm-routing-guide-2026-07/) — A practical decision framework for choosing a Chinese LLM or a direct frontier-provider route by product dependency, task constraints, and accepted-output cost—not a generic leaderboard. (2026-07-24)
- [Which Video Model Should You Use? Seedance, Kling, Hailuo, and Wan by Task](https://chinaapi.ai/insights/video-model-routing-guide-2026-07/) — A practical guide to choosing current ChinaAPI video models for story, movement, reference control, drafts, and edits—without pretending one model wins every job. (2026-07-20)
- [Which Image Model Should You Use? A Practical Seedream and Wan Guide](https://chinaapi.ai/insights/image-model-routing-guide-2026-07/) — Choose a current ChinaAPI image model by task shape, reference assets, control requirements, and the cost of getting a usable image — not by a generic quality leaderboard. (2026-07-20)
- [Choose a Chinese LLM: Current ChinaAPI Routing Guide](https://chinaapi.ai/insights/chinese-llm-routing-guide-2026-07/) — Route current ChinaAPI reasoning models by task shape, context window, modality, and usable-answer cost — not a generic quality leaderboard. (2026-07-20)
- [Chinese AI API Pricing Landscape — July 2026](https://chinaapi.ai/insights/chinese-ai-api-pricing-2026-07/) — What Chinese LLM, image, and video APIs cost in July 2026 — the sub-$0.20 tier, the 1M-context club, per-second vs per-generation video math, and what to pick by workload. (2026-07-06)

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