Chushou AI 触手AI

China's LoRA-training playground for illustrators and comic artists

Image Generation Freemium Has API
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RECATOOLS Score
6.2 / 10
Capability
6.5
Value for money
7
Ease of use
6
ASEAN readiness
4
API quality
4.5
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Launched
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Overview

Chushou AI (触手AI), from Hangzhou's Jellyfish Intelligence, is a browser-based image platform for illustrators and comic artists — text-to-image, image-to-image, ControlNet, and in-browser LoRA model training, backed by a marketplace of community style models.

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Pricing

Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.

Basic
Free
200 images/day, 3 LoRA training runs/day
  • 200 images per day
  • 3 model training runs per day
  • Access to community model marketplace

What you can produce with Chushou AI 触手AI

  • Text-to-image and image-to-image generation
  • Online LoRA model training (no local GPU needed)
  • ControlNet and inpainting tools
  • Community model marketplace
  • Simple and professional (Stable Diffusion-style) modes
  • Cleared China's deep-synthesis algorithm filing
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ASEAN Perspective

Chushou AI 触手AI in Southeast Asia

ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).

RECATOOLS Verdict

Chushou AI's edge is accessibility: online LoRA training that doesn't need a local GPU, plus a marketplace of community-trained style models, which is why it's popular with anime and comic creators rather than photorealism seekers. The basic tier caps you at 200 images and 3 training runs a day; the professional tier removes those caps and adds free high-res passes on the first 50 images daily — though Chushou doesn't publish a price for that tier anywhere public, so budgeting means signing up first.

It cleared China's deep-synthesis algorithm filing, which matters for anyone publishing generated content domestically. Everything — UI, community, support — is Chinese-only, and the API documentation isn't translated, so this is a tool for Chinese-fluent illustrators and small studios rather than an international pick.

Independent AI-assisted assessment by RECATOOLS.

What people say

Coverage of Chushou AI is mostly in the Chinese AI-tool blogosphere and Zhihu rather than Western review sites — no G2 or Capterra listing exists, which tracks with a product that never marketed outside China. What repeats across write-ups (Zhihu, AI138, 别摸鱼导航) is the same short list of selling points: everything is in Mandarin out of the box, there's no need to route around the firewall or rent a GPU to train a model, and the professional workspace bundles text-to-image, image-to-image, reference-based generation, ControlNet, inpainting and LoRA overlay into one tab set instead of forcing users between separate tools.

Reviewers who cover the professional tier specifically call out the online LoRA trainer as the standout: upload a reference set, the platform trains a custom style model on its own hardware, and the model becomes usable — and shareable, if published — without touching Stable Diffusion locally. That's unusual among Chinese platforms, most of which stick to prompt-and-generate.

The professional version has been in open beta since mid-2023, and write-ups from that period describe it as aimed at illustrators, manga artists and IP-content studios rather than casual users — some Zhihu posts mention it being used in serialized comic and 动态漫 (motion-comic) production pipelines, which fits a style-marketplace model that works better for keeping a character consistent across many panels than for one-off generation.

Nobody in the coverage flags reliability problems or downtime, but nobody publishes hard numbers either — no download counts, no revenue figures, no independently verified user base. The clearest complaint, implicit rather than stated outright, is that the professional tier's price isn't posted anywhere; several aggregator sites note this and just tell users to sign up and find out, which is unusual for a product this far past initial launch. The Google Play listing covers the base app, which skews toward casual generation rather than the professional workspace most reviewers focus on.

Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.

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