Z.ai is the official developer API for GLM models from Zhipu AI. Use https://api.z.ai as the OpenAI-compatible base URL with keys from the Z.ai console.
Z.ai is Zhipu AI official API platform for the GLM model family, offering OpenAI-compatible endpoints for text and multimodal workloads.
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Compare 4 model rows across audit recency, latest speed tests, throughput, latency, and per-token pricing.
| Model | Input ($/M) | Output ($/M) | Audit | Speed | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | — | 62.9 t/s | 3.85 s | |
| - | - | — | 48.3 t/s | 11.32 s | |
| - | - | — | 47.7 t/s | 17.28 s | |
| - | - | — | 37.7 t/s | 27.52 s |
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| Time | Model | Speed | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 08:32 PM | glm-5.2 | 62.89 tok/s | 3.85s |
| Apr 8, 02:15 PM | glm-5.1 | 48.29 tok/s | 11.32s |
| Mar 31, 03:05 AM | glm-5 | 37.74 tok/s | 27.52s |
| Mar 31, 03:04 AM | glm-5-turbo | 47.72 tok/s | 17.28s |
Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.
Compare Zhipu Z.ai alternatives against 6 nearby API providers using 106 LMSpeed signals across shared model coverage, pricing, benchmark speed, uptime, and free-model availability.
| Provider | Why compare | Models | Free | Avg price | Speed | 30d uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhipu Z.ai z-ai Z.ai is Zhipu AI official API platform for the GLM model family, offering OpenAI-compatible endpoints for text and multimodal workloads. | Current provider baseline | 8 | 0 | N/A | 49 tok/s | 99.4% |
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| 113 | 0 | $0.704/M | 52 tok/s | 99.6% |
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| 22 | 0 | N/A | 59 tok/s | 99.5% |
dashscope Alibaba Cloud DashScope provides AI model APIs including Qwen LLMs, vision, audio, and embedding models. |
| 56 | 0 | N/A | 73 tok/s | 88.2% |
volcengine-ark Volcengine Ark is ByteDance's enterprise AI platform, offering Doubao series models and third-party LLMs via OpenAI-compatible API. |
| 32 | 0 | N/A | 40 tok/s | 99.7% |
baidu-qianfan Baidu Qianfan is Baidu Intelligent Clouds enterprise AI platform, providing access to ERNIE series models and other LLM capabilities through developer APIs. |
| 26 | 0 | N/A | 81 tok/s | 67.8% |
mistral-ai-api Mistral AI API provides access to frontier AI models including Mistral Large, Medium, Small, and Codestral for chat, code, and embeddings. |
| 4 | 0 | N/A | 132 tok/s | 99.7% |
