中转站 — relay site
zhongzhuan zhan, transfer station
A third-party site that resells calls to upstream model APIs; users top up credit and make calls with a key the site issues.
Sites and frameworks
Terms used by Chinese API relay sites in group names and announcements, with plain-English meanings. Each entry lists its sources.
zhongzhuan zhan, transfer station
A third-party site that resells calls to upstream model APIs; users top up credit and make calls with a key the site issues.
Sites and frameworks
An open-source AI gateway built on a fork of One API, commonly used to run relay sites; it deducts credit by model rate multiplier × group rate multiplier.
Sites and frameworks
The open-source gateway that New API is based on; it deducts credit by group × model × completion multipliers, and tokens (API keys) cannot choose a group.
Sites and frameworks
An open-source gateway that turns the usage quota of subscription accounts such as Claude/OpenAI into API keys for distribution, billed by group rate multiplier.
Sites and frameworks
gongyi zhan, public-welfare / charity site
A relay site or group that the site owner opens for free or at a very low price; credit is mostly claimed through sign-up, daily check-in or redemption codes, is often limited, and may change at any time.
"Gongyi" is also used as a marketing label for low-priced groups (e.g. "semi-gongyi", "ultra-low-price gongyi models"); these are not free.
Free credit
lingpai, token / tally
The API key a site issues to a user; New API can assign a token to a group, and it is billed at that group's rate multiplier.
In samples, "official token" means the credential of an upstream official account/key, not a token issued by this site (CORPUS_OBSERVED).
Sites and frameworks
fenzu, grouping
A set of channels within a site, with its own rate multiplier; requests go through the channels of the group used and are billed at that group's multiplier.
Sites and frameworks
The `default` group that new users are placed in on New API; when a token has no group selected, it is billed by the user's group.
Sites and frameworks
moxing guangchang, model square
The site page that shows available models, prices, billing methods and group rate multipliers (New API path /pricing).
Sites and frameworks
edu, quota / limit
The accounting unit for a site balance; by default New API counts 500,000 credit units as US$1, and calls deduct it according to rate multipliers.
The usage cap of an upstream subscription account, such as the 5-hour or weekly quota of a Claude/ChatGPT plan (CORPUS_OBSERVED).
Billing and prices
zhanzhang, site chief
The operator of a relay site; some groups require contacting them to be enabled.
Sites and frameworks
The site replaces the model name in a request with another upstream model name before forwarding it, so the model actually called may differ.
When a listing says a model "is mapped", it often means another model is actually behind that name; users need to judge for themselves (CORPUS_OBSERVED).
Sites and frameworks
touchuan, pass straight through
Forwarding the client request to the upstream as-is, without rewriting parameters or adding injected content.
Usage terms
shangyou, upstream
The supplier that a relay site actually calls.
Sites and frameworks
beilv, multiplier
Billing multiplier. In New API, credit deducted = (input + output × completion multiplier) × model multiplier × group multiplier.
The community also calls the top-up ratio the "top-up multiplier", and uses "X multiplier" loosely for a discount relative to the official price (COMMUNITY_USAGE).
Billing and prices
The ratio of the output token unit price to the input unit price; output volume is multiplied by it first when billing.
Billing and prices
The ratio of the cache-hit input token price to the normal input price; New API counts it as 1 when it is not set.
Billing and prices
Upstream prompt caching; the portion that hits the cache is billed at a lower price. "High cache" means a high hit rate; "no cache" means cache hits are not billed at a cache price.
Billing and prices
Two uses: topping up 1 yuan gives US$1 of credit; or a rate multiplier of 1, billed at the official price.
A rate multiplier of 1, i.e. billed at the official price (COMMUNITY_USAGE).
Billing and prices
dao, literally 'knife'
Dao is slang for the US dollar; it often means US$1 of credit.
Billing and prices
luodi jia, landed price
The actual multiple of the official price, or the actual cost, after multiplying the group rate multiplier by the top-up conversion.
Billing and prices
A fixed fee per request, regardless of the number of tokens.
Billing and prices
Billed by token usage.
Billing and prices
Billed by generation duration; mostly seen with video models.
Billing and prices
zhengjia, regular price
Two uses: the official list price (not discounted); or a subscription account/official key opened by paying the normal official price.
An upstream account opened by paying the official price (full-price account), as opposed to disposable daily accounts and low-price accounts.
Billing and prices
yuanjia, original price
A price equal to the official pricing.
Billing and prices
tejia, special price
A discounted price labeled by the site; by itself it is not an access requirement.
Billing and prices
The site states that this is a limited-time price.
Billing and prices
Buying site credit with cash.
Billing and prices
taocan, set meal / bundle
A fixed price for a period of time or a set amount of usage.
Billing and prices
No refund after topping up or purchasing.
Usage terms
linqi hao, near-expiry account
An account pool supplied with subscription accounts that are close to their renewal date (e.g. ChatGPT Team).
Upstream sources
paoliang, run volume
The site says it has a large supply, or that heavy users can negotiate the price.
Billing and prices
guanfang, official
The site claims its supply goes through the official API or official subscription accounts of the vendor or a cloud platform; the word is also often used only as an "official price" reference.
(1) Price reference: "80% of official full price", "official 0.36x", "cheaper than official" and "official -85.7%" only use official pricing for comparison and say nothing about supply (by rough count, about 130/1012 groups mention "official" only in a price or official-client context); (2) client restriction: "official CLI only", "only usable in the official Claude client"; (3) "official max account pool" and "official subscription 20x" mean real subscription accounts, not the official API.
Upstream sources
guan key, official key
The site claims supply comes from official API keys issued by the vendor or a cloud platform (e.g. Azure, AWS).
The variant guanhao (official account) is not the same as an official key: in the corpus (27 groups / 15 sites) it mostly means official subscription accounts ("claude max20 official account", "Grok Heavy official account | grok heavy account pool", "GPT Pro official account | gpt pro account pool"), synonymous with account pool/subscription.
Upstream sources
guanzhuan, official forwarding
The site claims "forwarding through official channels": mostly forwarding the official API, but some sites also call a Max subscription account pool or a cloud channel an official relay.
Another use the corpus confirms is calling a subscription account pool an official relay: api.aabao.top "Claude official relay | max channel", api.ccode.vip "CC official relay MAX-t | official repost max pool", aifastgo.cn "cc official relay full-strength account pool", new.yihubang.top "cc-max official relay"; it is also used for cloud and aggregator platforms: aokapi.com "aws official relay", nxaiapp.com "azure official relay openai", qinzhiai.com "openrouter official relay".
Upstream sources
nixiang, reverse (engineering)
Not using the official API; it emulates the private interfaces of the web app, subscription accounts or IDE clients and turns them into an API.
(1) Usage restriction: "no reverse engineering, penetration or distillation", "reverse engineering and jailbreaking allowed" and "reverse engineering for security learning and research" refer to software reverse-engineering/security requests, not supply (17 groups / 10 sites in the corpus); (2) the scope differs by site: Kiro, Antigravity, awsq, and even "Claude Bedrock reverse" (a v2ex ad post) are all called reverse.
Upstream sources
fandai, short for reverse proxy
Proxying the internal interfaces of subscription accounts or clients (e.g. Kiro, Cursor) and selling them as an API; often used interchangeably with reverse-engineered.
The general networking sense of "reverse proxy": just forwarding some interface (e.g. "gpt-azure-reverse-proxy" in the corpus). The corpus also has "official key, not reverse proxy" and "direct API relay, not a reverse proxy", contrasted with direct official relay.
Upstream sources
The "2" is read as "to": a tool or channel that turns a subscription, web or IDE product into an API, e.g. kiro2api.
Upstream sources
Calls converted from the account quota of Kiro, a coding tool from Amazon AWS; mostly Claude models.
"aws", "cc-aws" and "awsq/aws-q" also often mean Kiro or Amazon Q channels (among groups containing aws, 48 also mention kiro and 19 mention aws-q); kiropower = Kiro Power tier ($200/month); "kiro enterprise account" = a Kiro Enterprise (IAM Identity Center/IdC) account; krio is a common misspelling.
Upstream sources
fanzhongli, antigravity
Calls converted from the account quota of Google's Antigravity development platform; includes both Gemini and Claude.
In the corpus, anti almost always means Antigravity (40 groups write only anti and not fanzhongli, e.g. anti-cc, gemini-anti); "ant" is ambiguous ("claude-ant-subscription billing" may mean Anthropic), so adding it as a variant is not recommended. In "antigravity ultra/pro mixed account pool", ultra/pro refer to Google AI subscription tiers.
Upstream sources
Calls converted from the subscription quota of coding tools such as Cursor, Windsurf and GitHub Copilot.
wf = Windsurf (e.g. "cc-wf | claudecode windsurf"); the variant trae (ByteDance's TRAE IDE) is in the list but not in the matching rules, with only 2 groups in the corpus; "workbuddy reverse proxy" is the same kind but not included; api.shiro.uno "Grok full-strength 0.1x | cursor pro full-strength" is Grok sourced from Cursor.
Upstream sources
Gemini calls converted from the quota of Google accounts (including enterprise licenses) logged in through Gemini CLI.
Client restriction: "Gemini CLI only/exclusive", "only for gemini cli, not for general chat" and "usable in gemini cli" mean it can only, or can, be used in the Gemini CLI client (9 groups / 7 sites); the supply may come from elsewhere (api.duckcoding.ai "Gemini CLI only-Antigravity | reverse antigravity"). "cli enterprise account pool" means Code Assist enterprise-licensed accounts.
Upstream sources
haochi, account pool
Supplying calls by pooling a batch of accounts (sometimes API keys) and calling them in rotation; mostly subscription accounts.
"key pool", "t1key pool" and "openai official key pool" mean pools of API keys, not accounts; "mixed pool/mixed account pool" means different tiers or sources mixed together ("plus, team, pro mixed pool", "ccmax-official key-awsb-top-tier mixed pool").
Upstream sources
The upstream is the usage quota of monthly subscription accounts such as ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Kiro.
The site's own monthly plans: "subscription billing", "subscription plan default group", "monthly card subscription" and "subscriptions use the 70%-price group" refer to this site's billing method, not supply (38/176 groups, 11 sites in the corpus).
Upstream sources
Claude Max subscription accounts used as upstream; 5x/20x are usage tiers relative to Pro ($100/$200).
A standalone "max" is often not Claude Max: qwen-max, site tier names ("Chinese models Max", "GPT models Max"), Kiro Pro Max, Copilot Max, "set thinking level to max", "max quality". 45 groups match the max rule but have no Claude model, and there are others, such as Kiro "Pro Max", that do contain Claude models.
Upstream sources
ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and other subscription accounts used as upstream; mostly used for Codex.
plus/pro/team are also often other vendors' tiers or site tier names: Claude Team ("claudemax 20x, claude team"), Kiro Pro+ ("CC Kiro Plus"), Grok "super/plus/heavy", qwen plus, "Chinese models Plus" (30 groups match the rule but have no GPT model); in the community "pro20x" means the $200 Pro tier (not confirmed word for word on the official page); "k12" means education accounts.
Upstream sources
xAI Grok subscription accounts used as upstream, in two tiers: SuperGrok and SuperGrok Heavy.
heavy can also mean the Grok Heavy model/mode (in grok2api, grok-chat-heavy requires a Heavy-tier account), so it does not necessarily mean only the account tier; in oai2api "grok heavy full price", "full price" is a pricing phrase.
Upstream sources
AWS upstream: mostly Bedrock (awsb); some sites also call Kiro and Amazon Q channels aws.
aws also refers to Kiro/Amazon Q Developer channels: of 454 groups containing aws, 48 also write kiro (e.g. "claude kiro-aws", "kiro aws enterprise channel") and 19 write aws-q/awsq; only 222 explicitly write bedrock or awsb. There is also a "Claude Platform on AWS" route, not yet seen in the corpus.
Upstream sources
The upstream is models on Microsoft's Azure cloud; mostly OpenAI, with some Claude.
Upstream sources
The upstream is Google Cloud Vertex AI or AI Studio.
Upstream sources
guonei yun pingtai, domestic cloud platform
The upstream is a platform in China, such as Volcano Engine or Alibaba Cloud Bailian.
Upstream sources
The upstream is the OpenRouter aggregation platform.
Upstream sources
qiye hao, enterprise account
An enterprise account means a vendor's enterprise/team edition account (e.g. Kiro Enterprise); "enterprise dedicated line" is mostly the site's own description of its line.
"Enterprise dedicated line/enterprise line/enterprise channel" (37 groups / 34 sites that do not say "enterprise account") are mostly the sites' own descriptions of lines aimed at business customers (high concurrency, invoicing, "cybersecurity enterprise channel") and do not specify the supply.
Upstream sources
The site claims an upstream or deployment that it maintains itself.
Upstream sources
The upstream comes from other relays or third-party platforms.
"Third-party client / third-party tool" refers to apps, not upstream sources; it is excluded when filtering by upstream.
Upstream sources
Multiple upstreams mixed together and allocated automatically depending on conditions.
Upstream sources
A backup channel used when the main channel is unavailable.
Upstream sources
maozi, literally 'hairy ones', slang for Russians
A colloquial (derogatory) term for Russians; sites use it for supply related to Russia, without stating the actual source.
Upstream sources
Huaqiangbei, a Shenzhen electronics market
A metaphor for imitation channels built on unofficial account pools (mostly reverse-engineered sources such as Kiro); the site claims results close to official.
Site quality claims
duxiang / zhuanxian, exclusive / dedicated line
A dedicated line or exclusive account as claimed by the site; whether it is really exclusive cannot be verified.
Upstream sources
Usable only after cumulative or single top-ups reach a certain amount.
Access requirements
Open only to invited users.
Access requirements
Usable only after buying a membership.
"Member account / member channel" means the upstream is subscription member accounts; a member discount label (members pay N tenths of the listed price, e.g. 80%) is an in-site member price, see "VIP user price".
Access requirements
Requires the site to add you to its whitelist.
Access requirements
kalei zhuanyong, for card holders only
Usable only after buying a plan such as a day pass or monthly pass.
Access requirements
Requires contacting the site owner to enable it manually.
Access requirements
The site states it is open only to businesses, large customers or resellers.
Access requirements
Mostly just a group or tier name; it only counts as an access requirement when the description states a top-up threshold, VIP-only access or a monthly pass.
(1) VIP as a user level: descriptions such as "vip after discount x2.55", "regular users 2x, svip1.8x" and "free for svip" mean in-site VIP users get a separate price and the listed multiplier is the regular-user price; (2) in white-label templates, vip/svip/ssvip/vvip denote channel types, not user levels: 8 sites including bltcy.ai, comfly.org, t8star.org, apilio.ai and kg-api.cloud uniformly use vip = reverse-engineered usage-based, vvip = reverse-engineered per-request, svip = pure Azure, ssvip = pure OpenAI.
Tier names
Mostly a label for a stable premium tier or an upstream enterprise account type; it only counts as a restriction when it states enterprise users only.
"Enterprise edition/enterprise pool/enterprise/business" often refer to the upstream account source (e.g. ChatGPT Enterprise/Team accounts, Gemini Enterprise), not a requirement that the buyer be a business.
Tier names
The group only accepts requests from the official Claude Code client; other apps are rejected or routed to another group.
"CC only / use in CC" sometimes only means the group offers an interface format that can connect to Claude Code (e.g. GPT, DeepSeek, GLM or Grok converted to the Claude protocol), not a client lock.
Client-restricted
Can only be called from Codex.
Client-restricted
jiuguan zhuanyong, for the tavern only
A group the site marks as intended for SillyTavern ("the tavern") role-play; mostly a statement of intended use.
Client-restricted
The site states it can be used in any client.
Client-restricted
waijie, external connection
Calling from apps other than the official client that matches the account pool (e.g. Claude Code, Codex), or directly through the API.
"External channel/external supplier/externally connected/external XX account pool": the group's upstream is connected from an outside supplier and not run by the site itself (e.g. qiuqiutoken "external supplier", jucodex "[external]-codex external channel", api.sqface.sbs "externally connected, intelligence not guaranteed", everygpt "external grokheavy account pool").
Client-restricted
zhengliu, distillation
Using model outputs to generate data in bulk for training other models; sites often state whether distillation is allowed.
In general contexts, "distilled version/distilled model" means a small model distilled from a large one (e.g. the DeepSeek-R1 distilled versions); this use is not seen in this corpus.
Usage terms
poxian, break the limits
Using prompts or presets to bypass a model's safety restrictions and refusals; pojia (break the armor) means the same as poxian.
Usage terms
jiuguan, tavern
The Chinese nickname for SillyTavern (a role-play chat frontend); sites often state whether it is supported or banned.
Usage terms
Adult content; sites state whether it is allowed.
Usage terms
Limits on simultaneous requests or requests per minute.
Usage terms
fenghao, seal the account
An account being banned: mostly the site banning users who break its rules, but also upstream official accounts being banned.
The site bans user accounts that break its rules (distillation, jailbreaking, pornography, etc.), often with "balance not refunded".
Usage terms
zhuru, injection
Extra prompts the site adds to requests when forwarding them (e.g. to disguise the client or avoid bans); "0 injection" (zero injection) means none are added.
In reverse-engineered channels such as Kiro, "official injection" means the system prompt built into the upstream client (toumingx "kiro personal channel | official injection"); the security sense of a prompt injection attack is not seen in the corpus.
Site quality claims
Whether function and tool calling is supported.
Usage terms
Whether reasoning (thinking) mode is supported.
Usage terms
The maximum number of tokens that can be processed at once.
Usage terms
manxue, full health bar (gaming slang)
The site claims the model's capability is complete and has not been cut down.
Pure-blood and full-strength are not the same thing: pure-blood is about a pure source (all official subscriptions, with no reverse-engineered or low-tier accounts mixed in, e.g. "pure-blood pro account pool"), while full-strength is about complete capability.
Site quality claims
jiangzhi, lowered intelligence
The model performs worse, often suspected of being swapped for a lower-tier model or of the upstream account being downgraded.
Site quality claims
chanshui, mixed with water
Mixing cheaper models or low-tier accounts into the claimed model or account pool.
"Mixed in" is also used for account tiers: "pro account pool, no free mixed in" and "pure pro account pool, unmixed" mean no low-tier accounts are mixed in; fapi.leileihog "nvdia mixed in" means models from another source are mixed in.
Site quality claims
The site claims high scores on third-party authenticity check sites (e.g. cctest, Hewei) or on the pelican test.
Site quality claims
The site's own description of availability.
Site quality claims
The site's own description of response speed.
Site quality claims
The site's own description of quality.
Site quality claims
lazha, pull the switch
A channel being stopped or its supply being cut; "may be cut off at any time" means it may stop at any moment, and "temporarily cut off" means it is currently stopped.
"Cut off only when official cuts off" (1rr.top) refers to the upstream official supply stopping; vibelearning "no cutoff" is the opposite claim.
Site quality claims
The site states it only guarantees that it works, not the quality of results.
Site quality claims
Can be called without deducting credit.
"free account / free reverse (reverse-engineered free-tier accounts) / free pool / free accounts" mean the upstream is free-tier accounts, not free credit (R16).
Free credit
fuli, welfare / perks
A free or low-priced group that the site labels as a perk.
Free credit
qiandao, sign in
Checking in on the site once a day to claim a small amount of credit, which can be used for free calls; the amount is set by the site owner.
Forum check-in: forums such as linux.do, nodeseek and v2ex also have daily check-ins (a v2ex check-in gives copper coins), which give forum points rather than API credit; when a user says "check-in", check which site is meant.
Free credit
Free credit or a group for new users to try out.
"Trial account" means the upstream is trial accounts, not trial credit for users.
Free credit
Used only to see error messages or model names, not for normal calls.
Not offered publicly
The site says not to select this group.
Not offered publicly
The group has been discontinued, is under maintenance or has been closed.
Not offered publicly
Only for the site's internal use or the site owner's own use.
Not offered publicly
Mostly groups for the site owner's own testing or debugging, not open to users; groups described as products for sale or open trials are handled separately.
"Test" often refers to evaluation or buyer self-testing: full score on tests, cctest 100 points, passed the pelican test, test it yourself, test before use, suitable for development testing.
Not offered publicly
Short for Claude Code; also often means the Claude series.
Nicknames and misspellings
guomo, short for domestic models
Models from Chinese vendors, such as DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi and Qwen.
Nicknames and misspellings
shengtu, generate images
Image generation models.
Nicknames and misspellings
xiangjiao, banana
Nickname for Nano Banana, Google's native Gemini image generation model series; "big banana" sometimes means the Pro version specifically.
"Big banana" has two uses: groups named just "big banana" (api.kpzhu.com, us.ai.easyart.cc, ai.zhongygod.com "Nanobanana Pro image generation | google big banana") contain only gemini-3-pro-image-preview; supertoken.cc states [big banana] = gemini-3-pro-image and [small banana] = gemini-3.1-flash-image; but the "big banana" groups on dawcode.* (4 sites), claude360.xyz, sparkcode.top and others contain 2.5 flash/3.1 flash/3 pro together, meaning the whole series. "banana 2" = Nano Banana 2, "banana pro" = Nano Banana Pro, "banana 2.1" = Nano Banana 2.1, "nb" = abbreviation of Nano Banana. This entry comes only from catalog observation.
Nicknames and misspellings
longxia, lobster
Nickname for the open-source agent OpenClaw, named after its lobster icon; "raising lobsters" means deploying and using it.
Nicknames and misspellings
aimashi, the Chinese name of the Hermes brand
Nickname for the open-source agent Hermes Agent; "raising horses" means deploying and using it.
Nicknames and misspellings
A group for use with OpenClaw only.
Client-restricted
A group for use with Hermes Agent only.
Client-restricted
In-site VIP users get a separate price; read the listed multiplier as the regular-user price.
Billing and prices
guanhao, official account
The site claims the upstream is the vendor's official subscription accounts (e.g. Max 20x, Grok Heavy, GPT Pro).
Upstream sources
chunxue, pure blood
The site claims its account pool is entirely genuine official accounts, with no other sources mixed in.
Site quality claims
The listed multiplier does not match the price the site itself states; it is listed as a reference, not as an accurate price.
Billing and prices
The multiplier after the top-up discount is factored in; when the number the site states differs from the listed multiplier, actual cost is calculated with it.
Billing and prices
Image models billed by the number of images generated, e.g. 0.1/image.
Billing and prices
qudao, channel
The site's term for one upstream source; a group may mix several channels.
Upstream sources
Two uses: images generated at native resolution (as opposed to upscaling); or a claim to be an unmodified official model.
Site quality claims
The site claims it calls the upstream directly, without going through other relays.
Upstream sources
chaofen, short for super-resolution
Images generated at a lower resolution and then enlarged, as opposed to native 4K.
Billing and prices
The interface format, such as OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini; it determines how a client connects.
Sites and frameworks
feibo, literally 'fat wave'
Nickname for the Claude Fable model series; F5 means Fable 5.
Nicknames and misspellings
Image model calls that the site claims are converted from Adobe Firefly and similar products.
Upstream sources
The usage tier of an upstream API account, e.g. Gemini API Tier 1 / Tier 3.
Upstream sources
Rate limits may apply during peak hours; some sites price by time of day.
Usage terms
sushua, quick refresh
The site's term for an account pool whose accounts are frequently replenished and replaced.
Upstream sources
buhao, top up accounts
The site adds new accounts to its account pool.
Upstream sources
The free ChatGPT for Teachers accounts that OpenAI gives US K-12 teachers, used as upstream.
Upstream sources
qiye chongzhi X wan, enterprise top-up of X ten-thousands (w = wan = 10,000)
The site's boast about its upstream source and reliability, not an access requirement.
Site quality claims
The site states the group is currently unavailable or about to be withdrawn.
Not offered publicly
A group opened for a single customer, not sold to anyone else.
Not offered publicly
Misspellings of grok, claude and kiro.
Nicknames and misspellings