Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM) vs Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Zhipu Qingyan 智谱清言 (ChatGLM)
GLM-powered chat assistant with a fast-growing global coding API
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Tencent Yuanbao 腾讯元宝
Tencent's consumer-facing AI assistant app
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | — | Free to use within the WeChat ecosystem; no published consumer subscription tier |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | ~57 million MAU (March 2026), 4th in China behind Doubao, Qianwen, and DeepSeek |
| Founded | 2019 | 2024 |
| Maker | Zhipu AI (Z.ai) | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
Yuanbao is Tencent's consumer AI assistant app, notable for offering both its own Hunyuan models and DeepSeek under one roof, with deep WeChat integration that lets it search and reason over Tencent ecosystem content. It... |
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