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

Current version

GLM-4.7

Entry cost

Free tier, coding plan from $3/mo

Changes / 30d

2

Capabilities

  • Coding plan
  • Agentic tool use
  • Vision
  • Open weights
  • Artifacts

Pricing

  • Free

    Free

  • Coding Lite

    $3

  • Coding Pro

    $15

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • GLM-4.7

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

  • GLM-4.6V

    Zhipu AI

    disclosed

Context window

200K tokens

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • Open weights (MIT)
  • Anthropic-compatible endpoint

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 unknown

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

  • version

    GLM-4.7 released with open weights under MIT

    GLM-4.6GLM-4.7

    source
  • pricing

    Coding Lite plan introduced at $3/mo

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    source