Z.ai (GLM Chat)

Free chat on flagship GLM-5.2 with no login required

What Z.ai (GLM Chat) does

  • Free chat on flagship GLM-5.2 with no login required
  • Built-in full-stack app/website builder mode
  • Free GLM-4.5-Flash tier for API prototyping

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 flagship GLM-5.2 with no login required. 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 391 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 flagship glm-5.2 with no login required; built-in full-stack app/website builder mode; free glm-4.5-flash tier for api prototyping.

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. Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应), Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan) and Falcon LLM Chat (TII) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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  • Free tier runs GPT-5-class models
  • Voice, vision, image generation & web browsing
  • Agent mode for multi-step tasks
  • Custom GPTs and file uploads

Claude

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with the Claude family (Opus/Sonnet class)
  • Best-in-class coding and long-form reasoning
  • Artifacts for live code & document previews
  • Projects, memory and MCP tool connectors

Gemini

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with Gemini 3 models
  • Up to 2M-token context (largest of any flagship)
  • Deep Google Workspace + real-time Search integration
  • Native image (Nano Banana) & video (Veo) generation

Grok

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with Grok 4-series models
  • Live data from X and the open web
  • Grok Imagine for image & video generation
  • Less-filtered, fast conversational style

DeepSeek

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free access to V3-series & R1 reasoning models
  • Open-weight, MoE-efficient architecture
  • Strong math, coding and reasoning
  • Transparent chain-of-thought mode

Microsoft Copilot

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

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