The application of substitutional model in oxide systems, in comparison with that of sublattice model, is discussed.The results show that in the case of crystalline phases and liquid phases without molecular-like associates or theshortage of element in sublattice, these two models get consistent in the description of the formalism of Gibbs freeenergies of phases and obtain the same result of phase diagram calculation when the valence of the cations keep thesame.