Why NovAI exists
Chinese labs — DeepSeek, Alibaba (Qwen), Zhipu (GLM), Moonshot (Kimi), ByteDance (Seedance/Seedream), MiniMax, Tencent (Hunyuan) — now produce models that lead or match global benchmarks in text, coding, image and video generation, at a fraction of Western list prices. Yet for developers outside China, accessing them remains unnecessarily hard: Chinese phone numbers, Alipay or CNY billing, and mainland-only endpoints.
NovAI is the gateway to Chinese AI: every major Chinese model family behind one OpenAI-compatible API, billed in USD at provider list price, payable with USDT or an ordinary credit card — no Chinese phone number, no Alipay, no geographic discrimination.
Our mission
NovAI exists to give developers worldwide fair, fast, and transparent access to the best Chinese AI models. No hidden markup. No geographic discrimination. No vendor lock-in. We are built for the Global South first — Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America — with USDT billing and card payments (Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay) so frontier AI is reachable without friction.
What we do
- Aggregate top Chinese AI providers (ByteDance Doubao, DeepSeek, Alibaba Qwen, Zhipu GLM, Moonshot Kimi) behind one OpenAI-compatible API.
- Run low-latency edge infrastructure in Hong Kong SAR with direct peering to mainland providers.
- Charge zero platform fee. The token price you see is what you pay.
- Offer exclusive distributor pricing on ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.0 series.
Why Hong Kong?
Hong Kong offers the best of both worlds: direct low-latency access to mainland China AI providers (80ms vs 300ms from US), while remaining accessible globally without geographic restrictions.
Official ecosystem partners
We are ecosystem partners of three providers — Zhipu AI (GLM, CogVideoX, CogView via BigModel), Volcano Engine (Seedance video, Seedream images, Doubao-Seed text) and Tencent Cloud (Hunyuan video & image). Requests travel from our Hong Kong gateway straight to provider infrastructure: no reseller hops, no shared quota pools, and billing at provider list prices.
Payment
We accept USDT (TRC20) and credit/debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay) — both live today, with instant top-up. Payments have no geographic restrictions — available to users in 200+ countries. Credits never expire.