AI automation and agents

• Choose n8n or Dify when you want a workflow you can self-host, plus a cloud the vendor sells. Choose 扣子 when the studio should be the mainland China product.
• Choose Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, or Replit when the agent’s job is code. Those listings are also on the coding page.
• Choose Kimi when the agent-style work is documents, search, and tasks in chat, from a product marked offered in mainland China.
• Expect a model bill somewhere. Hosted plans meter usage. A self-hosted Dify or n8n still calls a model you connect. This index does not list those API rates.
• Keep the China mark on the hosted product. A source-available edition is not a mark that the vendor’s cloud is offered in mainland China.

Three workflow listings first, then five products whose listings describe agent-style work.

• Agents·Source-available

  n8n

  Workflow tool used to connect AI models to other apps. The source can be self-hosted under n8n's Sustainable Use License, and n8n sells a cloud.

  Mainland China: not confirmed

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  Open this to connect AI models to other apps. The source can be self-hosted, and n8n also sells a cloud. Mainland China access for the hosted site is not confirmed.

• Agents·Source-available

  Dify

  Platform for agent workflows and retrieval apps. A source-available edition can be self-hosted, and Dify also sells a hosted cloud.

  Mainland China: not confirmed

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  Open this for agent workflows and retrieval apps. A source-available edition can be self-hosted, and Dify sells a hosted cloud. The hosted site’s China mark is not confirmed.

• Agents·Free tierEditor's pick

  Coze

  ByteDance's studio for agents and workflows. The mainland China product is 扣子 at coze.cn; coze.com is the international site.

  Mainland China: offered

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  Open this for ByteDance’s agent and workflow studio. The mainland China product is 扣子, and the listing is marked offered.

• Chat·Free tierEditor's pick

  Kimi

  Moonshot AI's assistant for long documents, search, and agent-style tasks.

  Mainland China: offered

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  Open this for agent-style tasks inside a chat assistant, from a product marked offered in mainland China. It is a chat listing with an agents tag.

• Coding·Free tierEditor's pick

  Cursor

  Desktop editor for agent-style coding across a whole repository, with a free tier and paid usage.

  Mainland China: not confirmed

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  Open this when the agent should edit a whole repository in a desktop editor. Mainland China access is not confirmed.

• Coding·Free tier

  GitHub Copilot

  Coding assistant inside editors and on GitHub, with a free tier and paid plans for completions, chat, and agent-style edits.

  Mainland China: not confirmed

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  Open this when agent-style edits should happen in an editor and on GitHub, beside completions and chat. Mainland China access is not confirmed.

• Coding·Free tier

  Windsurf

  AI code editor built around the Cascade agent for multi-step edits, with free and paid plans.

  Mainland China: not confirmed

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  Open this for multi-step edits through the Cascade agent in a desktop editor. Mainland China access is not confirmed.

• Coding·Free tier

  Replit

  Browser workspace for writing, running, and hosting software, including an agent that edits projects.

  Mainland China: not confirmed

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  Open this when the agent should edit a project you also run and host in the browser. Mainland China access is not confirmed.

• AI coding assistants

  Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and Replit, with the browser builders that are not repeated here.

• Cursor vs GitHub Copilot

  If the agent you mean is a coding agent, start with that head-to-head.

• AI tools for mainland China

  扣子 and Kimi are on that page with the other offered listings.

• What is the difference between an agent and a chatbot?

  A chatbot listing answers in a thread. A workflow listing connects a model to other apps. n8n, Dify, and 扣子 are the workflow tools in the index. Kimi and the coding products are marked with an agents tag because their own listings describe agent-style tasks.

• Which of these can be self-hosted?

  n8n’s source can be self-hosted under its Sustainable Use License, and n8n sells a cloud. Dify has a source-available edition you can self-host, and Dify sells a hosted cloud. 扣子 is listed as ByteDance’s hosted studio for mainland China. The editors and Kimi are hosted products in this index.

• Where are the API prices?

  They are not in the index. Hosted agents meter usage on the vendor’s plan. If you self-host Dify or n8n, the model bill belongs to whichever model you connect. Open that vendor’s pricing page for the number.

• Which agent tools are offered in mainland China?

  扣子 and Kimi are marked offered. n8n, Dify, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and Replit are not confirmed. Self-hosting n8n or Dify does not change the unconfirmed mark on the hosted site.

• Should a coding agent be on this page?

  Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and Replit are here because their listings say they do agent-style edits. If your job is the repository, the coding page is the fuller shortlist, including Bolt and v0.

NavBoth is a directory of public products already in the index. These pages help you choose a listing. The product itself runs on the vendor’s site. Mainland China marks come from public offers reviewed with the seed; they are not a live connection test. No listing on these pages has a paid badge. Names belong to their owners.

Connectors, rate limits, and license terms for self-hosting stay on the vendor’s site. n8n’s Sustainable Use License is named in the listing and is still the vendor’s text to read.

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