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 Kimi
Z.ai GLM (Zhipu AI) and Kimi (Moonshot AI) both sit in Writing. Kimi is the cheaper entry point at API access with pay-as-you-go pricing based on token consumption. File APIs are currently free.. Kimi shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 3). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Z.ai GLM Zhipu AI | Kimi Moonshot AI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | GLM-5.3 | Kimi K3 |
| Entry cost | from $18/mo | API access with pay-as-you-go pricing based on token consumption. File APIs are currently free. |
| Pricing tiers | GLM Coding Plan $18 | Pay-as-you-go / Pay-per-token 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 | Kimi K2.6 · Kimi K2.7 Code · Kimi K3 · kimi-k2.5 · kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed |
| Context window | 1000000 | 1000000 |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 3 | 10 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Coding plan, Agentic tool use, Vision, Open weights, Artifacts, Thinking Mode, Deep Thinking, Function Calling | Native multimodal (visual + text), 1M-token context, Agentic tool use, Thinking / non-thinking modes, Dedicated coding models (k2.7-code, high-speed), Open weights, 1M token context, Multimodal input |
Kimi
Moonshot AI's assistant, known for very long context windows and the open-weight K2 agentic model.
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