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Free chatbot and agent on GLM models
Pros
- Free consumer chat
- Competitive open-weight models
- Cheap coding plan
Cons
- Newer brand awareness
- China-based provider
✓ Where it shines / best for
- Developers wanting frontier-level coding at very low flat-rate cost
- Users of agentic IDE tools (Claude Code, Cline, Roo Code)
- Cost-sensitive teams needing cheap high-quality API access
- Those wanting open-weight models they can self-host
✕ Not the best fit for
- Users wanting monthly (not quarterly) billing simplicity
- Enterprises requiring Western data residency/compliance
- Non-technical users seeking a polished consumer assistant
Features
- ✓ Free tier
- ✓ API access
- ✓ Web search
- ✓ Multilingual
- ✓ Open source
- ✓ Reasoning
- ✓ Coding
- ✓ Agent Mode
- ✓ Vision
- ✓ IDE integration
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Chat | $0 | free | chat.z.ai access to free models GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash; no subscription |
| GLM Coding Plan Lite | $30 | quarterly | ~$10/mo; Q2 2026 discount ~$27/qtr; GLM-5.1, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-4.7/4.6, GLM-4.5-Air; 100 web searches/mo |
| GLM Coding Plan Pro | $90 | quarterly | ~$30/mo; Q2 2026 discount ~$81/qtr; adds GLM-5 access; 1,000 web searches/mo |
| GLM Coding Plan Max | $240 | quarterly | ~$80/mo; Q2 2026 discount ~$216/qtr; 4,000 web searches/mo |
| API Pay-as-you-go (GLM-5.1) | $1.40 / $4.40 | per 1M tokens | Input/output per million tokens |
Pricing verified from the official source. Prices change often — confirm on the vendor's site before buying.
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