LLM API·China
Zhipu AI
GLM family — bilingual + multimodal foundation models from Tsinghua
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Founded
2019
Headquarters
China
Price range
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API format
openai
Reachability & verification
Live reachability
Target (Zhipu AI): https://open.bigmodel.cn
Overseas reference latency (est.)
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About Zhipu AI
Zhipu AI (BigModel) operates the GLM-4 family, including GLM-4-Plus (flagship), GLM-4-Air (cost-efficient), and CogVLM (multimodal). Spun out of Tsinghua KEG Lab; known for bilingual Chinese-English performance and open-weight releases.
Pros
- OpenAI-compatible API: openai — drop-in for existing SDK users
- Established 7+ years (founded 2019)
Cons
- No overseas node — mainland China access only; GFW affects foreign users
- Payments only via alipay, wechat, invoice — may block non-China billing
Tracked models
19CodeGeeX4
OAIGLM 4 32B
OAIGLM 4.5
OAIGLM 4.5 Air
OAIGLM 4.5V
OAIGLM 4.6
OAIGLM 4.6V
OAIGLM 4.7
OAIGLM 4.7 Flash
OAIGLM 5
OAIGLM 5 Turbo
OAIGLM 5.1
OAIGLM 5V Turbo
OAIGLM-4-Air
OAIGLM-4-Air-250414
OAIGLM-4-AirX
OAIGLM-4-Flash-250414
OAIGLM-4-FlashX-250414
OAIGLM-4-Plus
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