Zhipu AI (GLM) alternatives

12 alternatives to Zhipu AI (GLM) in Frontier & Foundation Model Labs. 5 of them are tracked direct competitors.

CompanyPricingOpen sourceFunding
Zhipu AI (GLM)this pageChinese lab behind the GLM/ChatGLM model family.FreemiumYesSeries C
01.AI (Yi)direct competitorChinese AI lab founded by Kai-Fu Lee, creator of the Yi model family.UnknownYesSeries A
MiniMaxdirect competitorChinese AI lab producing text, voice, and video generation models.FreemiumNoUnknown
Moonshot AI (Kimi)direct competitorChinese AI lab behind the long-context Kimi assistant and models.FreeNoSeries B
OpenAIdirect competitorCreator of GPT and ChatGPT, one of the leading frontier AI labs.FreemiumNoSeries D+
Shanghai AI Lab (InternLM)direct competitorResearch lab behind the open-weight InternLM model family.FreeYesUnknown
AI21 LabsIsraeli AI lab behind the Jamba and Jurassic model families.FreemiumYesSeries C
Aleph AlphaGerman sovereign-AI lab building LLMs for enterprise and government.EnterpriseNoSeries B
Alibaba (Qwen)Alibaba's Qwen model family, widely used open-weight LLMs.FreeYesPublic
Amazon (Titan/Nova)Amazon's in-house Titan and Nova foundation models, served via Bedrock.PaidNoPublic
AnthropicAI safety-focused lab building the Claude family of models.FreemiumYesSeries D+
Apple (Apple Intelligence)Apple's on-device and cloud AI features, including OpenELM research models.PaidNoPublic
Baidu (ERNIE)Baidu's ERNIE foundation model family and Wenxin platform.FreemiumNoPublic

Direct competitors are curated relationships in the index. The remaining entries share the Frontier & Foundation Model Labs category.