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 Qwen Chat
Z.ai GLM (Zhipu AI) and Qwen Chat (Alibaba) both sit in Writing. Qwen Chat is the cheaper entry point at Free to chat on official website. Qwen Chat 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 | Qwen Chat Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | GLM-5.3 | Qwen3-2507 |
| Entry cost | from $18/mo | Free to chat on official website |
| Pricing tiers | GLM Coding Plan $18 | Free 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 | Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Qwen3 (Qwen3-2504) · Qwen3-2504 · Qwen3-2507 · Qwen3-Instruct-2507 · Qwen3-Max · Qwen3-Thinking-2507 · Qwen3-VL · QwQ |
| Context window | 1000000 | 256K |
| 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 | Web search, Image and video generation, Deep research, Translation, Open-weight siblings, natural language understanding, text generation, vision understanding |
Qwen Chat
Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.
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