aid: zhipu-ai
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zhipu-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Zhipu AI
x-type: company
description: >-
  Zhipu AI (Z.ai / BigModel) is a Chinese AI research lab and the developer of the GLM
  (General Language Model) family. The Z.ai open platform exposes chat completions, vision,
  image generation, video generation, web search, audio transcription, embeddings, fine-tuning,
  and agent APIs across the GLM-5, GLM-4.7, GLM-4.6, and GLM-4.5 model series.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - AI
  - LLM
  - Inference
  - GLM
  - ChatGLM
  - Multimodal
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: zhipu-ai:platform
    name: Z.ai Open Platform API
    description: >-
      OpenAI-compatible chat completions plus vision, image, video, web search, audio, embeddings,
      fine-tuning, and agent endpoints. International base URL https://api.z.ai/api; legacy China
      base URL https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4.
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://docs.z.ai/api-reference/llm/chat-completion
    baseURL: https://api.z.ai/api
    tags:
      - AI
      - LLM
      - Chat Completions
      - Vision
      - Image Generation
      - Video Generation
      - Embeddings
      - Fine Tuning
      - Web Search
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.z.ai
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/zhipu-ai-openapi.json
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://z.ai
      - type: Pricing
        url: https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing
      - type: LegacyBaseURL
        url: https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.zhipuai.cn/
  - type: AlternateWebsite
    url: https://z.ai
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.z.ai
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/zhipu-ai-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/zhipu-ai-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/zhipu-ai-finops.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com