Yi (01.AI) alternatives
6 agents tools in the same lane as Yi (01.AI), ranked by editorial score.
MI
MiniMax
Agents · MiniMax M3, Hailuo 2.3, Speech 2.8, Music 2.6
8.0
Chinese frontier-model lab shipping multimodal foundation models with a 1M-context coding/agent stack.
Freemium· Free tier; Token plan from ~$20/mo (~12.5B tokens); enterprise pricing on requestcoding-agentlong-context
CZ
ChatGLM (Zhipu Qingyan)
Agents · GLM-4, GLM-4V, GLM-4-Air/Flash, CogView, CogVideoX (ChatGLM family, Zhipu AI / Tsinghua KEG)
8.4
Zhipu AI's bilingual ChatGLM assistant with agents, code, image and video generation
Freemium· Free consumer tier (chatglm.cn); paid API tiers via Zhipu Open Platform (bigmodel.cn) priced per million tokens by model (GLM-4, GLM-4-Air, GLM-4-Flash, GLM-4V, CogVideoX); enterprise/private deployment on requestChinese-language document drafting and rewritingChinese-English translation and localisation
PA
Portkey AI Gateway
Agents · Multi-model (1,600+ LLMs)
7.2
Open-source AI gateway that routes a single API call across 1,600+ LLMs with caching, fallbacks, and observability.
Freemium· Developer: Free Forever · Production: $49/month · Enterprise: Custom Pricingllm-routingfallbacks-and-retries
DI
Dify
Agents · Model-agnostic: OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4.1), Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Mistral, Cohere, Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Open-source LLMOps platform for building agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and AI applications
Freemium· Professional: $590 · Team: $1590 · Sandbox: Free · Enterprise: Custom · Community: FreeRAG chatbot over internal documentsCustomer support automation
LG
LLM Gateway
Agents · Routes to GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5, Llama 3.1, Mistral, and 200+ others
One API, 200+ models, transparent pricing, and no vendor lock-in.
Freemium· Free: $0 · Enterprise: CustomMulti-provider LLM routingAutomatic failover between model vendors
LS
LM Studio
Agents · Multi-model (gpt-oss, Qwen3, Gemma, DeepSeek-R1, Llama, others)
8.3
Desktop app for discovering, downloading, and running open-weight LLMs locally with an OpenAI-compatible server.
Freemium· Free: $0local-llm-inferenceprivate-chat