What is ModelScope?
ModelScope, launched by Alibaba, is China’s largest open model community, hosting Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM and many more models and datasets with fast domestic downloads, free demo Spaces, notebooks and inference APIs.
Quick Facts
- Website
- https://modelscope.cn
- Category
- Open-Source Models & Local AI
- Region
- China
- Pricing
- Free — Core features are currently free to use.
- Tags
- Updated
- 2026-11-04
Access Notes
This product is built by a company based in China. The interface and content are optimised for Chinese users, and some services ask for a mainland China mobile number or a WeChat account to sign up. Many Chinese AI products also run an international version with a separate domain.
Alternatives to ModelScope: WiseModel, Hugging Face, Ollama, LM Studio, ComfyUI