⚡ 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.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 a substantial 68.4% share.
It is followed by Midjourney with 22.8% and Stable Diffusion with 13.9%.

ChatGPT 68.4%
Midjourney 22.8%
Stable Diffusion 13.9%
Adobe Firefly 3.8%
QuillBot 1.3%
Grammarly 1.3%
DALL-E 0.6%
Microsoft Copilot Studio 0.6%
HeyGen 0.6%
ElevenLabs 0.6%

🚀 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 ^(-3)
3. Stable Diffusion ^(-9)
4. Adobe Firefly ^(-9)
7. DALL-E ^(-4)

✨ Best Generative AI Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 10 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	68.4%
2	Midjourney San Francisco, California, United States A generative AI service that creates images and short videos from natural language descriptions. $10+/month	22.8%
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$$$	13.9%
4	Adobe Firefly San Jose, California, United States A generative AI tool that turns text descriptions into AI-generated images. Free$9.99+/month	3.8%
5	QuillBot San Francisco, California, United States An AI-powered writing assistant that helps users rewrite, improve, and generate text through automated language processing tools. Free$8.33/month	1.3%
6	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	1.3%
7	DALL-E San Francisco, California, United States A generative AI tool developed by OpenAI to generate images from text prompts. $0.04+/image	0.6%
8	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	0.6%
9	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	0.6%
10	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	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Generative AI in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 83,408 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 13 generative AI tools across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.