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GLM-4
Zhipu's frontier open-weights LLM family.
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Best for
Best for teams with significant Chinese-language workloads.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemium
- Setup time
- 30 minutes
- Learning curve
- moderate
- Last verified
- 5/26/2026
What we love
- ✓Best Chinese LLM on market
- ✓Strong multimodal variant
- ✓Open weights for research
Where it falls short
- −Less well-known outside China
- −Documentation often Chinese-first
- −Smaller English community
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20262 tiers
API
Usage
per token
- ✓BigModel platform
Open weights
$0
perpetual
- ✓MIT (smaller sizes)
Overview
GLM-4 is Zhipu AI's flagship LLM — strong on Chinese + English, with multimodal variants (GLM-4V) and an Anthropic-style tool-use API. Open weights for some sizes.
Key features
- ●Multilingual (zh/en strong)
- ●128K context
- ●Multimodal GLM-4V
- ●Tool use API
- ●Open weights (some variants)
Best use cases
Multilingual workloads
Handle Chinese + English tasks at higher quality than translating in/out of GPT.
Vision tasks
Use GLM-4V for visual understanding in production.
Integrations
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