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GLM (Z.ai)

GLM-5.x flagship and Flash models released as open weights on Hugging Face

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What GLM (Z.ai) does

  • GLM-5.x flagship and Flash models released as open weights on Hugging Face
  • GLM-4.x Flash text and vision models are free via the Z.ai API
  • Strong agentic and coding results among open Chinese models

GLM (Z.ai) — straight answers

What is GLM (Z.ai)?

GLM (Z.ai) is listed under Notable Open Models, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. GLM-5.x flagship and Flash models released as open weights on Hugging Face. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at z.ai.

Is GLM (Z.ai) free?

GLM (Z.ai) is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 404 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can GLM (Z.ai) do?

GLM (Z.ai) does 3 things the catalog singles out: Glm-5.x flagship and flash models released as open weights on hugging face; glm-4.x flash text and vision models are free via the z.ai api; strong agentic and coding results among open chinese models.

What is the best free alternative to GLM (Z.ai)?

DeepSeek Models is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Notable Open Models sub-category and is free. ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu), EXAONE (LG AI Research) and Falcon (TII) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Llama (Meta)

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  • Meta's flagship open-weight family (Llama 4)
  • Multimodal and long-context variants
  • Run locally or via any host
  • Free, permissive license
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Qwen (Alibaba)

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free
  • Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0
  • Qwen3.6 mid-size models suit agentic coding on one high-memory machine
  • Small Qwen3.5 sizes run on phones and laptops
  • Free weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope
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DeepSeek Models

Notable Open Models
free
  • DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed
  • Very long context with reasoning and non-reasoning modes
  • Successors to the V3 and R1 lines
  • Free weights plus free web chat
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Gemma (Google)

Notable Open Models
free
  • Google's lightweight open models (Gemma 4)
  • Runs in as little as 16GB RAM
  • On-device and multimodal variants
  • Free and open
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GPT-OSS (OpenAI)

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free
  • OpenAI's Apache-2.0 open-weight reasoning models (120B and 20B)
  • Run locally or self-host, with configurable reasoning effort
  • Safeguard variants for policy-based content classification
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Pleias

Notable Open Models
free
  • Fully open-weight, open-dataset small language models (350M-3B) explicitly built for EU AI Act compliance
  • Trained exclusively on the 2-trillion-token open Common Corpus, not scraped/licensed text
  • Purpose-built RAG models (Pleias-RAG-350M/1B) with built-in citation tracking, Apache 2.0 licensed
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Head-to-head comparisons

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