specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Zhipu AI
providerId: zhipu-ai
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: true
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- GLM
- Plans
description: >-
  Z.ai offers two commercial models: pay-as-you-go API consumption priced per million tokens
  per model, and the GLM Coding Plan subscription with usage allowances. Free tiers exist for
  GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash, and several vision models.
notes: >-
  Pricing as of May 2026 - GLM-5.1 is the highest at $1.40/M input tokens, GLM-4.7-FlashX at
  $0.07/M, GLM-OCR at $0.03/M. Image gen $0.01-$0.015 per image, video $0.20-$0.40 per video,
  web search $0.01 per call, audio transcription $0.03/M tokens, agents $0.20-$3.00/M tokens.
sources:
- https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing
- https://docs.z.ai/devpack/overview
plans:
- id: zhipu-ai-pay-as-you-go
  name: Pay As You Go
  type: usage
  description: Per-token consumption billed against prepaid balance for API users.
  entries:
  - label: Chat Completions Input/Output
    name: chat_tokens
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1000000
    price: see https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Image Generation
    name: image_count
    type: usage
    metric: images
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.01-0.015 USD per image'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Video Generation
    name: video_count
    type: usage
    metric: videos
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.20-0.40 USD per video'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Web Search Tool
    name: web_search
    type: usage
    metric: calls
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.01 USD per call'
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: GLM-5.1, GLM-5-Turbo, GLM-5
  - name: GLM-4.7, GLM-4.7-FlashX, GLM-4.7-Flash (free)
  - name: GLM-4.6, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.5-Air/X/AirX/Flash
  - name: Vision models GLM-5V-Turbo, GLM-4.6V, GLM-4.5V
  - name: GLM-Image, CogView-4
  - name: GLM-OCR, audio transcription, embeddings
- id: zhipu-ai-glm-coding-plan
  name: GLM Coding Plan
  type: subscription
  description: Monthly subscription bundling usage allowances for AI-coding integrations.
  entries:
  - label: Subscription
    name: coding_subscription
    type: subscription
    metric: bundle
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: monthly
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: see plan tiers
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: 5-hour and weekly usage windows
  - name: Peak/off-peak quota multipliers (1x off-peak, 2-3x peak)
  - name: Free GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash usage
- id: zhipu-ai-free
  name: Free Tier (Flash Models)
  type: free
  description: Free access to designated Flash variants.
  entries:
  - label: GLM-4.7-Flash
    name: glm_47_flash_free
    type: free
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: GLM-4.7-Flash
  - name: GLM-4.5-Flash
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com