IDC: China's enterprise MaaS market hits 10.63B yuan in H1 2026, SenseTime holds No. 2 in private deployments

IDC has published its analysis of China's enterprise MaaS market for the first half of 2026. The report puts the overall market at 10.63 billion yuan for the period, up nearly ninefold compared with a year earlier.

The private-deployment segment, a major component of that market, reached 2.88 billion yuan, up 108.4% year on year. SenseTime's Dazhuangzhi platform held a 9.4% share there, ranking second for another period and staying in the leading tier.

IDC attributes the surge to three drivers: model upgrades, expanding use cases and broader modality coverage. For cloud providers and model vendors alike, MaaS has become a growth base they cannot afford to lose, which explains the heavier investment in private-deployment delivery.

The report also tracks a shift in what buyers want. Attention has moved from single-model capability to a platform's overall completeness, where data security, business customization, self-reliance and domestic IT compatibility all matter. Engineering delivery and long-term operations now decide whether projects succeed, and customers are starting to judge returns on business metrics rather than leaderboard scores.

SenseTime says its infrastructure arm pairs end-to-end multimodal solutions with a Forward Deployed Engineer model, working on-site with customers to define scenarios and co-build models. It cites its Yunyu Xingkong model, described as the first foundation model for China's planning and natural-resources field, as an example that cut processing time by 60% and lifted per-capita output by 70%.

SenseTime has also packaged the approach into a delivery rule it calls 1-2-30: one day to define business value, two days to validate a demo, 30 days to ship a stable version. The company says the method has been applied with five large Shanghai state-owned enterprises in advanced manufacturing across dozens of industrial scenarios.

One caveat: the QbitAI article was supplied by SenseTime and republished with permission, and the share and growth figures follow IDC's methodology. For the private-deployment segment, the competitive edge now sits in delivery and operations rather than leaderboard scores. That is the variable to watch when the next share update arrives.