Z.ai GLM
Zhipu AI (Z.ai) ships the GLM family as both a hosted assistant and permissively licensed weights.
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Z.ai GLM vs DeepSeek
Z.ai GLM (Zhipu AI) and DeepSeek (DeepSeek) both sit in Writing. DeepSeek is the cheaper entry point at Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified.. DeepSeek shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 7). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Z.ai GLM Zhipu AI | DeepSeek DeepSeek |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | GLM-5.3 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 |
| Entry cost | from $18/mo | Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified. |
| Pricing tiers | Coding Plan $18 | Pay-as-you-go API free |
| Model stack | CogVideoX-3 · CogView-4 · glm-4-32b-0414-128k · 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 | deepseek-flash · DeepSeek-R1 · DeepSeek-V3.2 · deepseek-v4-flash · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · DeepSeek-V4-Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 |
| Context window | 1000000 | 1000000 |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 7 | 11 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Coding plan, Agentic tool use, Vision, Open weights, Artifacts, Thinking Mode, Deep Thinking, Function Calling | Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output |
DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.
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