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 Grok
Z.ai GLM (Zhipu AI) and Grok (xAI) both sit in Writing. Grok is the cheaper entry point at from $2/mo. Grok shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 7). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Z.ai GLM Zhipu AI | Grok xAI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | GLM-5.3 | Grok 4.7 |
| Entry cost | from $18/mo | from $2/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Coding Plan $18 | Grok 4.7 Input (per 1M tokens) $2 · Grok 4.7 Output (per 1M tokens) $6 |
| 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 | grok-4.5 · grok-4.6 · grok-4.7 · grok-imagine-image · grok-imagine-image-2.0 · grok-imagine-image-quality · grok-imagine-video · grok-imagine-video-1.5 |
| Context window | 1000000 | 500000 |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 7 | 10 |
| Origin | China | Global |
| Capabilities | Coding plan, Agentic tool use, Vision, Open weights, Artifacts, Thinking Mode, Deep Thinking, Function Calling | Real-time X search, Think and Big Brain modes, Voice mode, Image generation, API access, text generation, agentic coding, voice agent |
Grok
Grok pairs xAI's in-house models with live access to the X firehose, sold standalone and bundled into X Premium tiers.
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