What Z.ai (GLM) does
Teams running agentic coding or bulk generation who need frontier-adjacent quality at a fraction of US per-token pricing
Core capabilities
- Anthropic-compatible API endpoint
- 'GLM-4/5 series models
- 'Coding-plan subscription for IDE agents
- 'OpenAI-style chat completions
Pricing
| Model | Paid |
|---|---|
| Observed pricing | GLM Coding Plan from ~$3/month; API usage billed per token |
Pricing read from the vendor’s public pages and re-checked each quarter. Seat minimums and annual commitments are excluded unless stated.
Who it fits
Teams running agentic coding or bulk generation who need frontier-adjacent quality at a fraction of US per-token pricing
How we classify it
Listed under AI Agents & Workflow Builders. Verdicts are written from public pricing, documentation and hands-on trials — not from vendor briefings.
Henryk Wexel runs Quota Engine. He spent a decade selling B2B software and building outbound systems — as a founder, as a seller at Silverfort and Cradlepoint, and as the person on the hook for pipeline numbers. He writes the reviews here because he has bought, deployed, argued about and cancelled most of the tools in this index. Based in Palma de Mallorca.