GLM (Z.ai) is listed under Notable Open Models, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. GLM-4.5-Flash and GLM-4.7-Flash text models are free via API. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at z.ai.
GLM (Z.ai) is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
GLM (Z.ai) does 3 things the catalog singles out: Glm-4.5-flash and glm-4.7-flash text models are free via api; open-weight glm checkpoints on hugging face (mit-style license for glm-4.5-air); strong agentic/coding benchmark results rivaling deepseek and qwen.
DeepSeek Models is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Notable Open Models sub-category and is free. EXAONE (LG AI Research), Falcon (TII) and Gemma (Google) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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