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 ERNIE Bot
Z.ai GLM (Zhipu AI) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot is the cheaper entry point at Pay-as-you-go API pricing with select free trial skills/components. Ernie 5.0 at 0.006-0.01 RMB per 1k input tokens.. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (15 vs 7). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Z.ai GLM Zhipu AI | ERNIE Bot Baidu |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | GLM-5.3 | 5.0 |
| Entry cost | from $18/mo | Pay-as-you-go API pricing with select free trial skills/components. Ernie 5.0 at 0.006-0.01 RMB per 1k input tokens. |
| 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-V3.1 · ERNIE 4.5 (open weights) · ERNIE 4.5 Turbo · ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL · ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B · ERNIE 5.0 · ERNIE X1.1 Preview · ernie-4.5-turbo-128k · ERNIE-5.0-Thinking-Preview |
| Context window | 1000000 | 119k |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 7 | 15 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Coding plan, Agentic tool use, Vision, Open weights, Artifacts, Thinking Mode, Deep Thinking, Function Calling | Multimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR |
ERNIE Bot
Baidu's assistant (Wenxin Yiyan), backed by the ERNIE model line and integrated into Baidu Search.
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