A practical guide to calling Tencent's Hunyuan from outside mainland China — no CN phone number, no China-only payment — through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
TurboS; hunyuan-lite is completely free. It is one of the most capable Chinese-origin models and is widely used for bilingual (Chinese/English) workloads. The catch: the official console requires a mainland identity and RMB payment, which blocks most overseas developers.
| Model | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Hunyuan | ¥0.8/1M tokens | ¥2/1M tokens |
curl https://447a931e9b6e46249e80a111415cd170.app.workbuddy.link/v1/llm \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"provider":"hunyuan","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello from abroad"}],"max_tokens":120}'
Swap provider to any other China model without changing your client code.
TideLink wraps Doubao, Qwen, GLM, Hunyuan, DeepSeek and Kimi behind a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint — with free sign-up credit.
Get an API key →