⚡ 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 0.3% of websites from China.

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⭐ 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 70.5% share.
It is followed by Midjourney with 17.9% and Stable Diffusion with 13.4%.

🚀 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.

✨ Best Generative AI Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 11 generative AI tools used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket 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
2
Midjourney
San Francisco, California, United States

A generative AI service that creates images and short videos from natural language descriptions.

$10+/month
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$$$
4
Adobe Firefly
San Jose, California, United States

A family of generative AI models and a web-based creative studio that generates and edits images, video, audio, and vector graphics from text prompts.

Free$9.99+/month
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
6
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
7
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
8
Google Gemini
Mountain View, California, United States

A family of multimodal artificial intelligence models and a generative AI chatbot developed by Google for generating and understanding text, images, audio, video, and code.

Free tier$$$
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
10
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Redmond, Washington, United States

A low-code platform for building, customizing, and managing generative AI assistants called copilots.

$30+/user/month
11
Canva
Sydney, Australia

A graphic design platform that enables users to create, edit, and collaborate on visual content across formats such as logos, presentations, videos, websites, and marketing materials.

Free$18+/user/month

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