Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM) vs Kimi 月之暗面
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM)
Zhipu's GLM-powered assistant, plus a GLM coding subscription
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Kimi 月之暗面
Moonshot AI's assistant and open-weight K3 model with a 1M-token conte...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Qingyan web/app chat is free with sign-in; memberships and points packs are optional. Z.ai API: GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash and GLM-4.6V-Flash are free | Adagio free plan: 1 concurrent agent task, 2 scheduled tasks, 2 projects and 500MB of project storage |
| Paid from | Coding Plan from $18/mo; Qingyan membership ¥79/mo (China App Store) | $19/month (Plus, or $15/month billed annually); API from $0.95 in and $4.00 out per M tokens |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 36M+ MAU (as of late 2024) |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
| Maker | Z.AI Co., Ltd. (北京智谱华章科技股份有限公司) | Moonshot AI (月之暗面) |
| Verdict | Qingyan is a capable, free Chinese AI assistant backed by Zhipu's strong GLM models, and the GLM Coding Plan offers an affordable alternative model for coding agents, with off-peak discounts in Singapore time. Prices hav... |
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... |
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