I Tested DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi And GLM Heres The Real Winner
okay so listen, ive been building AI tools for like 2 years now and I kept hearing the same question over and over from other indie hackers in my Discord: "should I use DeepSeek or Qwen or whatever else is coming out of China these days?" and honestly, I had no good answer. every blog post I found was either outdated, sponsored, or just regurgitating press releases.
so I did what any slightly unhinged solo dev would do. I spent my own money, wired up all four model families to my side project, and ran them through actual real-world tasks. not benchmarks, not synthetic tests. the messy stuff I actually need to do every week: write code, summarize docs, translate chinese customer feedback, generate product descriptions, the whole grind.
heres what I found. and yeah, theres a clear winner. kinda.
The Setup, Real Quick
