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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) ships the GLM family as both a hosted assistant and permissively licensed weights.

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Trust score · Verified

3 data points checked · 2026-11-07

Model stack: VerifiedEntry price: VerifiedVersion: VerifiedHow this works →

Current version

GLM-5.3

Entry cost

from $18/mo

Changes / 30d

7

The short answers · verified November 5, 2026

What is the latest version of Z.ai GLM?
The current shipped version of Z.ai GLM is GLM-5.3, as of November 5, 2026.
How much does Z.ai GLM cost?
Z.ai GLM starts at $18 per month on its cheapest paid tier, as of November 5, 2026.
What AI model does Z.ai GLM use?
Z.ai GLM runs primarily on CogVideoX-3.

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Capabilities

  • Coding plan
  • Agentic tool use
  • Vision
  • Open weights
  • Artifacts
  • Thinking Mode
  • Deep Thinking
  • Function Calling
  • Context Caching
  • Structured Output
  • Web Search
  • Translation Agent
  • Vision Language Models
  • Video Generation
  • Text Generation
  • Image Generation
  • Streaming
  • Coding Plan
  • Streaming Messages
  • OpenAI Compatibility
  • Text-to-Image
  • Chat API
  • Tool Streaming Output
  • Web Search Stream Tool Call
  • GLM Coding Plan
  • HTTP API
  • OpenAI SDK Compatibility
  • Video Gen
  • Visual Programming
  • text-generation
  • image-generation
  • video-generation
  • audio-processing
  • coding-assistant
  • multimodal
  • Chat
  • Reasoning Effort Control
  • Python SDK
  • Java SDK
  • Stream Tool Call
  • chat
  • coding
  • vision
  • image generation
  • video generation
  • function calling
  • structured output
  • web search
  • thinking mode
  • Language Models
  • Image Generation Models
  • Video Generation Models
  • Audio Models
  • Tool Calling
  • Multimodal Coding
  • Vision Models
  • Video Gen Models
  • api
  • coding-plan
  • function-calling
  • deep-thinking
  • structured-output
  • web-search
  • Tool Streaming
  • Tools
  • API
  • SDK
  • Multimodal
  • Chat Completion
  • Text-to-image
  • Long Context
  • Vision Understanding
  • Security

Pricing

  • Coding Plan

    Monthly access to world-class models for coding and office tasks, from $18/month

    $18

Entry price over time

7/26/2026 · $311/5/2026 · $18

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • CogVideoX-3

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • CogView-4

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • glm-4-32b-0414-128k

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-4.5

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-4.6

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-4.6V

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-4.7

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-5

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-5-Turbo

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-5.1

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-5.2

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-5.3

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-5.3-Flash

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-5.3-FlashX

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-5V-Turbo

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-ASR-2512

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-Image

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-OCR

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

Context window

1000000

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • openai-sdk
  • python-sdk
  • java-sdk

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • capability

    Context window now 1000000

    1M1000000

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1M

    1M tokens1M

    source
  • version

    Z.ai GLM moved to GLM-5.3

    5.3GLM-5.3

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1M tokens

    10000001M tokens

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1000000

    1M1000000

    source
  • version

    Z.ai GLM moved to 5.3

    GLM-5.35.3

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1M

    10000001M

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Security

    72 tracked73 tracked · +Security

    source
  • version

    Z.ai GLM moved to GLM-5.3

    5.3GLM-5.3

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1000000

    1M tokens1000000

    source
  • version

    Z.ai GLM moved to 5.3

    GLM-5.35.3

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1M tokens

    10000001M tokens

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1000000

    1M1000000

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1M

    10000001M

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1000000

    1M tokens1000000

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1M tokens

    10000001M tokens

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Long Context, Vision Understanding

    70 tracked72 tracked · +Long Context, Vision Understanding

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Text-to-image

    69 tracked70 tracked · +Text-to-image

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Chat Completion

    68 tracked69 tracked · +Chat Completion

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: API, SDK, Multimodal

    65 tracked68 tracked · +API, SDK, Multimodal

    source
  • model

    Z.ai GLM added GLM-5.3-FlashX to its model stack

    CogVideoX-3, CogView-4, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6, GLM-4.6V, GLM-4.7, GLM-5, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-5.1, GLM-5.2, GLM-5.3, GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-5V-Turbo, GLM-ASR-2512, GLM-Image, GLM-OCR, glm-4-32b-0414-128kCogVideoX-3, CogView-4, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6, GLM-4.6V, GLM-4.7, GLM-5, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-5.1, GLM-5.2, GLM-5.3, GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-5.3-FlashX, GLM-5V-Turbo, GLM-ASR-2512, GLM-Image, GLM-OCR, glm-4-32b-0414-128k

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Tools

    64 tracked65 tracked · +Tools

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Tool Streaming

    63 tracked64 tracked · +Tool Streaming

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: api, coding-plan, function-calling

    57 tracked63 tracked · +api, coding-plan, function-calling, deep-thinking, structured-output, web-search

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Vision Models, Video Gen Models

    55 tracked57 tracked · +Vision Models, Video Gen Models

    source
  • model

    Z.ai GLM added GLM-ASR-2512, GLM-OCR to its model stack

    CogVideoX-3, CogView-4, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6, GLM-4.6V, GLM-4.7, GLM-5, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-5.1, GLM-5.2, GLM-5.3, GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-5V-Turbo, GLM-Image, glm-4-32b-0414-128kCogVideoX-3, CogView-4, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6, GLM-4.6V, GLM-4.7, GLM-5, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-5.1, GLM-5.2, GLM-5.3, GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-5V-Turbo, GLM-ASR-2512, GLM-Image, GLM-OCR, glm-4-32b-0414-128k

    source
  • model

    Z.ai GLM added GLM-5.3-Flash to its model stack

    CogVideoX-3, CogView-4, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6, GLM-4.6V, GLM-4.7, GLM-5, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-5.1, GLM-5.2, GLM-5.3, GLM-5V-Turbo, GLM-Image, glm-4-32b-0414-128kCogVideoX-3, CogView-4, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6, GLM-4.6V, GLM-4.7, GLM-5, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-5.1, GLM-5.2, GLM-5.3, GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-5V-Turbo, GLM-Image, glm-4-32b-0414-128k

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Multimodal Coding

    54 tracked55 tracked · +Multimodal Coding

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Tool Calling

    53 tracked54 tracked · +Tool Calling

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Audio Models

    52 tracked53 tracked · +Audio Models

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Language Models, Image Generation Models, Video Generation Models

    49 tracked52 tracked · +Language Models, Image Generation Models, Video Generation Models

    source
  • version

    Z.ai GLM moved to GLM-5.3

    GLM-5.2GLM-5.3

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: chat, coding, vision

    40 tracked49 tracked · +chat, coding, vision, image generation, video generation, function calling, structured output, web search, thinking mode

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Stream Tool Call

    39 tracked40 tracked · +Stream Tool Call

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Python SDK, Java SDK

    37 tracked39 tracked · +Python SDK, Java SDK

    source
  • model

    Z.ai GLM added GLM-5.3 to its model stack

    CogVideoX-3, CogView-4, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6, GLM-4.6V, GLM-4.7, GLM-5, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-5.1, GLM-5.2, GLM-5V-Turbo, GLM-Image, glm-4-32b-0414-128kCogVideoX-3, CogView-4, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6, GLM-4.6V, GLM-4.7, GLM-5, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-5.1, GLM-5.2, GLM-5.3, GLM-5V-Turbo, GLM-Image, glm-4-32b-0414-128k

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1000000

    1M1000000

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Chat, Reasoning Effort Control

    35 tracked37 tracked · +Chat, Reasoning Effort Control

    source
  • capability

    Context window now 1M

    10000001M

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: text-generation, image-generation, video-generation

    29 tracked35 tracked · +text-generation, image-generation, video-generation, audio-processing, coding-assistant, multimodal

    source
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APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Z.ai GLM — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/zhipu-glm
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-zhipu-glm,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Z.ai GLM — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/zhipu-glm}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}