01Pass through five gates first
Network reachability, official country support, truthful phone/payment/account identity, product versus API support, and personal or organizational compliance are five distinct gates. A site opening answers only whether a connection is technically possible; it does not answer whether service is authorized or stable.
02Read official status by product and region
This page’s source check was July 26, 2026. At that date, mainland China was absent from the official support lists cited for multiple US services. Products, APIs, mobile apps and enterprise services can have different scope. A listing for Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan or another region cannot be used to infer formal mainland support. Do not treat “someone else can use it” as evidence that your location and account are supported.
03Choose formal domestic or local options
For ordinary use, prefer services formally offered in mainland China such as DeepSeek, Qwen or Kimi; developers can use formally domestic APIs. For tighter data boundaries, assess open-weight models and local deployment. A third-party aggregator needs separate checks of operator, model provenance, data processing, billing, logs and stability. Claiming OpenAI-compatible API does not make a platform an OpenAI service.
04Check the date before relying on an access article
Country policy, export controls, app-store scope and payment rules can change. Reopen current official support pages before a specific decision; if an article conflicts with a vendor’s latest list, applicable law or organizational rules, the current official pages and those rules prevail.
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