Alibaba just launched Qwen-AgentWorld. Here’s how we built a gateway to let global indies use it for cheap.

Hi IH community,

Did you catch Alibaba’s massive release of Qwen-AgentWorld and Qwen 3.7 Max recently?

As indie hackers, we are all moving into the "Agent Era." But running autonomous agents means loop after loop of background prompt hits, which means millions of tokens evaporated in seconds. If you hook your agent up to Anthropic or OpenAI full-time, you'll go broke before you find product-market fit.

The smart move right now is routing those heavy, repetitive background reasoning tasks to Chinese flagship models like Qwen. They are structurally cheaper due to massive domestic infrastructure scaling, but their international API onboarding is still a mess for non-Chinese residents.

We saw this exact problem 3 months ago and decided to scratch our own itch. Today, we are soft-launching PandasRouter (https://pandasrouter.com/).

It’s an API proxy/router designed to give global indie hackers immediate, friction-free access to China's most powerful, low-cost models.

How it works & Why it's different:

Drop-in Replacement: Change your baseURL and apiKey, and you are instantly hooked into Qwen or DeepSeek.

Cost Optimization: Automatically route specific sub-tasks to the most cost-effective Chinese model.

No Bullsh*t Setup: No local Chinese KYC, no payment barriers.

We are fully bootstrapped and looking for our first 100 power users. If you are building an AI agent or app and want to slice your API costs by up to 80%, give it a spin.

Would love any brutal feedback on our landing page or API performance!
👉 https://pandasrouter.com/