Kimi 月之暗面 vs Z.ai (Zhipu GLM)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Kimi 月之暗面
Moonshot AI's assistant and open-weight K3 model with a 1M-token conte...
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Z.ai (Zhipu GLM)
Zhipu's GLM model family, open weights and a Singapore-run API
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Adagio free plan: 1 concurrent agent task, 2 scheduled tasks, 2 projects and 500MB of project storage | GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash and GLM-4.6V-Flash free on the API; free chat at chat.z.ai |
| Paid from | $19/month (Plus, or $15/month billed annually); API from $0.95 in and $4.00 out per M tokens | $18/month (GLM Coding Plan Lite; $12.60/month billed yearly); API priced per token |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 36M+ MAU (as of late 2024) | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Maker | Moonshot AI (月之暗面) | Knowledge Atlas Technology (Zhipu AI) |
| Verdict | Kimi earns its place on capability and price. K3 is the largest open-weight model available, with a one-million-token context and weights you can run yourself under a licence that only bites on very large commercial user... |
GLM is one of the strongest price-performance options among open-weight model families: GLM-5.3 lists at $1.40 and $4.40 per million tokens, Flash models are free, and the GLM Coding Plan from $18 a month plugs into Clau... |
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