360 Zhinao 360智脑 vs StepFun 阶跃星辰

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

360 Zhinao 360智脑 Qihoo 360's LLM family Visit StepFun 阶跃星辰 Chinese multimodal frontier-model lab founded by Microsoft Research ve... Visit
RECATOOLS Score 5 / 10 6.6 / 10
Capability 6 7.5
Value for money 6 7
Ease of use 6 5
ASEAN readiness 3 4
API quality 2 6
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users
Founded 2023 2023
Maker
Verdict

360 Zhinao is Qihoo 360's in-house large language model, powering chat and productivity features across the company's China-focused ecosystem. It performs reasonably on Mandarin tasks and benefits from integration with 3...

StepFun (阶跃星辰) is a well-funded Chinese AI lab building capable multimodal Step models, with an OpenAI-compatible API, realtime voice tooling and recent open-source releases such as Step 3.7 Flash aimed at agentic us...

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