Kimi 月之暗面 vs Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Kimi 月之暗面
Long-context chat assistant from Moonshot AI
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Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM)
GLM-powered chat assistant with a fast-growing global coding API
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | API from $0.95/$4.00 per M tokens (input/output; OpenRouter ~$0.75/$3.50); free web tier | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 36M+ MAU (as of late 2024) | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
| Maker | — | Zhipu AI (Z.ai) |
| Verdict | Kimi is Moonshot AI's consumer front-end for the open-weight K-series models, and in 2026 it's no longer a China-only story: kimi.com, the Kimi Code CLI and an English API platform give it a real international footprint,... |
Zhipu is one of the few Chinese labs treating its international API seriously rather than as an afterthought: GLM-5.2 shipped in June 2026 as a 744B-parameter MoE model with a genuinely usable 1M-token context, open-sour... |
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