Chinese dramas on iQIYI

iQIYI is one of China's biggest video platforms, and its international service, the iQIYI app and iq.com, carries many of its own productions outside China. Many iQIYI originals stream internationally while they are still airing in China, so it's often the main official way to keep up with an airing iQIYI drama.

Access is free plus VIP. When we checked from the US in October 2026, most iQIYI dramas we track had their first one to five episodes free with ads and the rest marked VIP. A few titles had no VIP episodes at all. Our Where to Watch panel shows what we found for each drama in your region.

VIP comes in Standard and Premium. According to iQIYI's VIP privileges page, VIP skips some pre-roll ads but not ads placed inside the video, and it gets early access to the latest episodes. Standard allows two screens at up to 1080p. Premium allows four screens and 4K on selected titles and devices.

Subtitles are official. English was listed on every iQIYI drama we checked, and some titles add a long list of other languages. Catalogs differ by country, so we record the date we last checked each one.