Zhipu AI

Zhipu AI ranks #9 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 14 ranked models. Its best model is GLM 5.3 at 63.5 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in composite. Prices run from $0.153 to $2.15 per million tokens blended; GLM 4.7 Flash is the cheapest ranked option. The fastest is GLM 5.2 at 91 tokens per second. 15 of its 28 models ship open weights. It has shipped 15 dated releases, roughly one every 28 days; the last was 18 Sept 2026, so the next would be due between 4 Oct 2026 and 27 Oct 2026 on that pattern.

Tsinghua spin-out behind the GLM series, released open-weights (GLM-4.5, 4.6, 5) with a focus on agentic coding.

Provider rank

#9

by best model

Best index

63.5

GLM 5.3 (max)

Ranked models

14

15 open weights

Cheapest ranked

$0.153/M

GLM 4.7 Flash