The Complete Guide to Coding Plans for Programmers (Updated April 2026)

A complete comparison of China’s top 7 Coding Plans (Volcengine / Alibaba / Tencent / Baidu / Kimi / Zhipu / Minimax), including each platform’s models, pricing, quota, and features. This is basically the full picture of the current AI coding ecosystem in China.

A Coding Plan is an AI programming model subscription package offered by cloud vendors.

Core features:

• Fixed monthly fee
• Provides a large quota of AI requests
• Can be used in tools like Cursor / Claude Code / Cline / OpenClaw

In essence: Coding Plan = AI programming model subscription service.

1. Zhipu GLM Coding Plan

Platform: Zhipu AI

Supported models:

• GLM-4.7
• GLM-5
• GLM-5.1
• GLM-5-Turbo
• Latest Zhipu models

Features:

• Strong reasoning ability
• Agent ecosystem
• Supports 20+ programming tools including Claude Code
• Gradually rolling out latest flagship models and features

Link: https://www.bigmodel.cn/glm-coding?ic=HUPXXXNAM8

2. Volcengine Ark Coding Plan

Platform: Volcengine

Supported models:

• Doubao-Seed-Code
• DeepSeek-V3.2
• GLM-4.7
• Kimi-K2

Users can freely switch models or use Auto mode for automatic selection.

Features:

• Multi-model aggregation
• Auto model selection
• Compatible with Cursor / Claude Code / Cline
• Mainly focuses on ByteDance ecosystem models

Lite Plan:

• Per 5 hours: up to approx. 1,200 requests
• Per week: up to approx. 9,000 requests
• Per subscription month: up to approx. 18,000 requests

Pro Plan:

• 5x the quota of Lite Plan
• Per 5 hours: up to approx. 6,000 requests
• Per week: up to approx. 45,000 requests
• Per subscription month: up to approx. 90,000 requests

Subscription link: https://volcengine.com/L/0wCTjxOa9jA/

3. Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan

Platform: Alibaba Cloud

Supported models:

• Qwen3.5-Plus
• Qwen3-Coder
• GLM-5
• MiniMax-M2.5
• Kimi-K2.5

Features:

• Qwen coding models are very strong
• Large number of models
• Strong agent ecosystem
• Has usage restrictions (only allowed for AI coding tool calls)

Pro Plan:

• 6,000 requests per 5 hours
• 45,000 requests per week
• 90,000 requests per month

Subscription link: https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/

4. Tencent Cloud Coding Plan

Platform: Tencent Cloud

Supported models:

• Tencent HY 2.0
• GLM-5
• Kimi-K2.5
• MiniMax-M2.5

Pros:

• Tencent Hunyuan models
• Strong enterprise ecosystem

Cons:

• Programming model maturity slightly weaker than Qwen

Lite Plan: 40 yuan/month

• Per 5 hours: up to approx. 1,200 requests
• Per week: up to approx. 9,000 requests
• Per subscription month: up to approx. 18,000 requests

Pro Plan: 200 yuan/month

• Per 5 hours: up to approx. 6,000 requests
• Per week: up to approx. 45,000 requests
• Per subscription month: up to approx. 90,000 requests

5. Baidu Qianfan Coding Plan

Platform: Baidu

Supported models:

• GLM-5
• MiniMax-M2.5
• Kimi-K2.5
• Wenxin series models

Features:

• Qianfan ecosystem
• Many enterprise users
• Smaller developer community

Link: https://cloud.baidu.com/product/codingplan.html

6. Kimi Code

Platform: Moonshot AI

Core models:

• Kimi K2
• Kimi K2.5

Features:

• Long context
• Strong reasoning ability

• Suitable for:

  • Complex project analysis
  • AI agents

Link: https://www.kimi.com/code

7. MiniMax Token Plan

I’ve also been using MiniMax for coding recently – the results are decent, and it serves as a good alternative to ChatGPT.

Supported models:

• MiniMax 2.7
• Speech-2.8-HD (speech model)
• MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 (video model)
• image-01 (image model)
• music-2.5+ (music model)

Features:

• M2.7 flagship for coding
• Extreme cost-effectiveness
• All-modal one-stop solution

Link: https://platform.minimaxi.com/subscribe/token-plan

Coding Plan Comparison