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 Hunyuan
Z.ai GLM (Zhipu AI) and Hunyuan (Tencent) both sit in Writing. Hunyuan is the cheaper entry point at Free trial up to 1 million tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward.. Hunyuan shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (16 vs 3). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Z.ai GLM Zhipu AI | Hunyuan Tencent |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | GLM-5.3 | Hunyuan-role-latest |
| Entry cost | from $18/mo | Free trial up to 1 million tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward. |
| Pricing tiers | GLM Coding Plan $18 | Free Trial (1M tokens) 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-5V-Turbo · GLM-ASR-2512 · GLM-Image · GLM-OCR | Hunyuan-a13b · Hunyuan-embedding · Hunyuan-role-latest · Hunyuan-t1-vision · Hunyuan-T2 · Hunyuan-translation · Hunyuan-translation-lite · Hunyuan-turbos-vision · Hunyuan-turbos-vision-video · Hunyuan3D · HunyuanVideo · Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct |
| Context window | 1000000 | 256K tokens |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 3 | 16 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Coding plan, Agentic tool use, Vision, Open weights, Artifacts, Thinking Mode, Deep Thinking, Function Calling | Image generation, Video generation, 3D asset generation, WeChat integration, Text Generation, Roleplay, Translation, Multimodal Vision |
Hunyuan
Hunyuan spans text, image, video and 3D generation, with several components open-sourced.
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