12 alternatives to Zhipu AI (GLM) in Frontier & Foundation Model Labs. 5 of them are tracked direct competitors.
| Company | Pricing | Open source | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhipu AI (GLM)this pageChinese lab behind the GLM/ChatGLM model family. | Freemium | Yes | Series C |
| 01.AI (Yi)direct competitorChinese AI lab founded by Kai-Fu Lee, creator of the Yi model family. | Unknown | Yes | Series A |
| MiniMaxdirect competitorChinese AI lab producing text, voice, and video generation models. | Freemium | No | Unknown |
| Moonshot AI (Kimi)direct competitorChinese AI lab behind the long-context Kimi assistant and models. | Free | No | Series B |
| OpenAIdirect competitorCreator of GPT and ChatGPT, one of the leading frontier AI labs. | Freemium | No | Series D+ |
| Shanghai AI Lab (InternLM)direct competitorResearch lab behind the open-weight InternLM model family. | Free | Yes | Unknown |
| AI21 LabsIsraeli AI lab behind the Jamba and Jurassic model families. | Freemium | Yes | Series C |
| Aleph AlphaGerman sovereign-AI lab building LLMs for enterprise and government. | Enterprise | No | Series B |
| Alibaba (Qwen)Alibaba's Qwen model family, widely used open-weight LLMs. | Free | Yes | Public |
| Amazon (Titan/Nova)Amazon's in-house Titan and Nova foundation models, served via Bedrock. | Paid | No | Public |
| AnthropicAI safety-focused lab building the Claude family of models. | Freemium | Yes | Series D+ |
| Apple (Apple Intelligence)Apple's on-device and cloud AI features, including OpenELM research models. | Paid | No | Public |
| Baidu (ERNIE)Baidu's ERNIE foundation model family and Wenxin platform. | Freemium | No | Public |
Direct competitors are curated relationships in the index. The remaining entries share the Frontier & Foundation Model Labs category.