Z.ai (GLM Chat)

Free chat on Zhipu's flagship GLM-5.x models

What Z.ai (GLM Chat) does

  • Free chat on Zhipu's flagship GLM-5.x models
  • Built-in full-stack app/website builder mode
  • Open-weight GLM checkpoints plus free Flash-tier API models

Z.ai (GLM Chat) — straight answers

What is Z.ai (GLM Chat)?

Z.ai (GLM Chat) is listed under General Purpose Chatbots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. Free chat on Zhipu's flagship GLM-5.x models. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at chat.z.ai.

Is Z.ai (GLM Chat) free?

Z.ai (GLM Chat) 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 Z.ai (GLM Chat) do?

Z.ai (GLM Chat) does 3 things the catalog singles out: Free chat on zhipu's flagship glm-5.x models; built-in full-stack app/website builder mode; open-weight glm checkpoints plus free flash-tier api models.

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

Alibaba Quark AI Assistant is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Amazon Nova, Apertus Chat (Public AI) and Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Z.ai (GLM Chat) alternatives

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ChatGPT

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier on OpenAI's fast GPT-6/GPT-5.x 'Luna' models, with a Think button for harder questions
  • Voice, vision, image generation and web search in one app
  • Agent mode, projects, memory and file uploads
  • Custom GPTs and a large app/connector ecosystem

Claude

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier on Anthropic's Claude 5 family (Sonnet-class model by default)
  • Top-tier coding, writing and long-document reasoning
  • Artifacts for live code, document and app previews
  • Projects, memory, web search and MCP tool connectors

Gemini

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier on Gemini 3.x Flash models, with limited access to the top Pro model
  • Very long context for whole books, codebases and long videos
  • Deep Google Workspace and real-time Search integration
  • Native image (Nano Banana) and video (Veo) generation, Gemini Live voice

Grok

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free, rate-limited access to xAI's latest Grok 4.x models
  • Live data from X and the open web
  • Grok Imagine for image and video generation
  • Fast, less-filtered conversational style

DeepSeek

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free web and app chat on DeepSeek's V4-series models
  • Instant and Expert (deep-thinking) modes
  • Strong math, coding and reasoning at open-model cost
  • Models are also released as open weights

Microsoft Copilot

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier mixing frontier OpenAI models with Microsoft's own MAI models
  • Built into Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365
  • Voice, vision and image generation
  • Copilot Vision can see and talk through your screen

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