{"slug": "ask-hn-which-cheap-chinese-llm-are-you-using", "title": "Ask HN: Which cheap Chinese LLM are you using?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asks which cheap Chinese large language models the community is using, citing recent releases like DeepSeek V4 Pro, Mimo V2.5 Pro, MiniMax M3, and GLM 5.2, and invites discussion on their performance, pros, and cons.", "body_md": "In the last one or two months, starting from DeepSeek V4 Pro, there are quite many low-price Chinese models coming out. Their performance looks more or less similar to me: Mimo V2.5 Pro, MiniMax M3, and the just released GLM 5.2, etc.\n\nWhich model are you using now? Why? What are the good and bad parts?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523455](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523455)\n\nPoints: 4\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-cheap-chinese-llm-are-you-using", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523455", "published_at": "2026-06-14 02:00:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-14 02:30:16.119088+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["DeepSeek", "Mimo", "MiniMax", "GLM"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-cheap-chinese-llm-are-you-using", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-cheap-chinese-llm-are-you-using.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-cheap-chinese-llm-are-you-using.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-cheap-chinese-llm-are-you-using.jsonld"}}