⚡ Generative AI in China

Generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI, GenAI) tools are software solutions that use large language models (LLMs) and other machine learning algorithms to create new digital content, including text, images, audio, video, and computer code.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, generative AI tools are detected on 0.2% of websites from China.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top generative AI tools on websites in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is ChatGPT, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 71.2% share.
It is followed by Midjourney with 21.9% and Stable Diffusion with 12.3%.

ChatGPT 71.2%
Midjourney 21.9%
Stable Diffusion 12.3%
Adobe Firefly 3.4%
Grammarly 1.4%
DALL-E 0.7%
Microsoft Copilot Studio 0.7%
HeyGen 0.7%
ElevenLabs 0.7%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Midjourney ^(-2)
3. Stable Diffusion ^(-8)
4. Adobe Firefly ^(-8)
6. DALL-E ^(-4)

✨ Best Generative AI Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 9 generative AI tools used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	ChatGPT San Francisco, California, United States A generative AI chatbot and virtual assistant developed by OpenAI that uses large language models to understand and generate human-like text in response to user prompts. Free$8+/month	71.2%
2	Midjourney San Francisco, California, United States A generative AI service that creates images and short videos from natural language descriptions. $10+/month	21.9%
3	Stable Diffusion London, United Kingdom An open-source, generative AI text-to-image model that generates photorealistic and artistic images from natural language prompts using latent diffusion techniques. FreeOpen source$$$	12.3%
4	Adobe Firefly San Jose, California, United States A generative AI tool that turns text descriptions into AI-generated images. Free$9.99+/month	3.4%
5	Grammarly San Francisco, California, United States An online grammar checker and AI writing assistant that helps users improve written communication by analyzing text for grammar, spelling, clarity, tone, and style issues. Free$12+/month	1.4%
6	DALL-E San Francisco, California, United States A generative AI tool developed by OpenAI to generate images from text prompts. $0.04+/image	0.7%
7	Microsoft Copilot Studio Redmond, Washington, United States A graphical low-code tool for building and maintaining your own generative AI tools, called Copilots. $200+/month	0.7%
8	HeyGen Los Angeles, California, United States An AI video generation platform that creates synthetic videos with lifelike avatars from text, images, or audio inputs. Free$29+/month	0.7%
9	ElevenLabs New York, United States An AI audio platform specializing in natural-sounding speech synthesis, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice generation, conversational AI, and automated dubbing. Free$5+/month	0.7%

👉 See Also

🌎 Generative AI in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 82,655 websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.