Zhipu AI / GLM
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GLM-4 frontier model. Free quota for new users.
LLMest. 2019 · Beijing, China
85
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
Free credits on signup · no card
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
GLM-4GLM-4-Flash (free)GLM-4V
Monthly Tokens
Free starter credits on signup
No credit card needed
Phone verification required
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">from openai 300">"text-purple-400">import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=300">"YOUR_ZHIPU_KEY",
base_url=300">"https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=300">"glm-4-flash",
messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)// Overview
Zhipu AI (智谱AI) offers GLM-4 through the BigModel platform. GLM-4 is competitive with GPT-4 on Chinese benchmarks. New users receive free credits without a credit card.
// Pros
- GLM-4-Flash model is free
- Strong Chinese language
- Vision support
// Cons
- Phone required
- Primarily Chinese docs
- May need VPN
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)75/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)78/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)78/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
Chinese AI appsBilingual applicationsVision tasks