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Z.AI GLM API

Zhipu's pay-per-token API for the GLM model family

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Standalone pay-per-token foundation model API for Zhipu's GLM family, led by GLM-5.2 (744B MoE, 1M context). Weights are MIT-licensed and open, giving teams a choice between the hosted API and self-hosting — the main Chinese-lab entry point in this catalog beyond DeepSeek.

Choose Z.AI GLM API when…

  • •You want an open-weight model family with a hosted pay-per-token option
  • •You're benchmarking against DeepSeek and want another frontier open-weights alternative
  • •You need a free tier to prototype before committing to paid usage

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Where do your models actually run?Required for most stacks

LLM providers and inference servers — where the actual model computation happens

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LiteLLMLLM Infrastructure

LiteLLM ships a GLM/Z.AI provider adapter, letting the GLM API be routed and load-balanced alongside every other model provider through one interface.

→ Add Z.AI's GLM models to a multi-provider LiteLLM setup without a separate SDK integration.

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Pricing

✦ Free tier available
GLM-4.5-FlashFree
GLM-5.2$1.40 / $4.40 per 1M tokens (in/out)

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