GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash text models listed as free for input and output on the public API
GLM-4.6V-Flash vision model also free
Larger GLM-5.x models are paid
Z.ai Open Platform (free GLM Flash API) — straight answers
What is Z.ai Open Platform (free GLM Flash API)?
Z.ai Open Platform (free GLM Flash API) is listed under Model Hosting & Inference APIs, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash text models listed as free for input and output on the public API. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at docs.z.ai.
Is Z.ai Open Platform (free GLM Flash API) free?
Z.ai Open Platform (free GLM Flash API) 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 Open Platform (free GLM Flash API) do?
Z.ai Open Platform (free GLM Flash API) does 3 things the catalog singles out: Glm-4.7-flash and glm-4.5-flash text models listed as free for input and output on the public api; glm-4.6v-flash vision model also free; larger glm-5.x models are paid.
What is the best free alternative to Z.ai Open Platform (free GLM Flash API)?
Baseten is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Model Hosting & Inference APIs sub-category and is free tier + paid plans. Cloudflare Workers AI, Cohere Trial API and Google AI Studio also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.